Jim Gleason is the Managing Director for Lending Solutions within Moody's Analytics, a division of Moody's that provides financial intelligence and analytical tools to help business leaders make better, faster decisions. Prior to his current role, Mr. Gleason served as the Managing Director of Operations for CA&O within the Enterprise Risk Solutions business in Moody's Analytics. He joined Moody’s Analytics in 2008 through an acquisition of WebEquity where he was the Chief Operating Officer. Before that, Mr. Gleason was the Chief Operating Officer for Equity Consultants and the Chief Financial Officer for Leeann Chin, Inc. Mr. Gleason has a Bachelor's degree in Government and Political Science from Saint John's University and an MBA in Finance and International Business from the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame.

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Ioannis is a Managing Director at RiskMatrix focusing on Credit Analytics Services and Moody’s CreditLens. Previously to this role, Ioannis was a client facing consultant for both the Risk Management Services and Credit Analytics group of Moody's Analytics in London, advising global financial institutions in the fields of macro dynamics and credit risk, structured finance valuations, economic stress testing, and internal rating systems. Before joining Moody's, Ioannis worked as a credit risk consultant for Equifax, building generic and bespoke credit scoring models that supported decision-making and strategies across the credit lifecycle (origination, customer management, collections and recoveries). He has studied Financial and Banking Management, holds a master's degree in Operational Research from the Lancaster University Management School (LUMS) and has over 15 years of experience in analytics and credit modeling.

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Brian has been part of the Moody’s Analytics team for almost 7 years, providing support for Lending Solutions Products, helping clients achieve their compliance and regulatory requirements, also collaborating with the IT Operations, Engineering, and Product teams to help secure and safeguard applications and infrastructure. He is supporting CreditLens clients on discussions related to security, compliance, disaster recovery, and the contracting process. Prior to Moody’s, Brian spent 12 years in public accounting and in consulting.

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Yi is a risk management practitioner, specialized in Credit Risk solutioning, Digital Transformation and Commercial Lending platform implementation. He has led and executed lending transformation projects with leading financial institutions, including Australia New Zealand Bank, National Australia Bank, HSBC, BBVA, NedBank, Standard Chartered Bank, Bank of East Asia, Siam Commercial Bank and many more.

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Roger Kumra is the Senior Director responsible for Credit Analytics at RiskMatrix. His focus is on advisory services related to credit risk modelling and governance, stress-testing and IFRS 9 frameworks. Roger has over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry primarily in credit risk management. Much of this experience was gained while working for RiskMatrix and Moody’s Analytics. Roger also spent several years managing the IRB regime at the PRA/FSA (Prudential Regulation Authority/Financial Services Authority – the UK prudential supervisor). In addition to reviews of firms’ rating systems, IRB applications, stress testing and internal governance, Roger also represented the UK on European regulatory fora. Roger has an honours degree in Mathematics from University College London, an MBA from Manchester Business School and a second masters in Intelligent Systems (artificial intelligence) from Plymouth University.

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Tarek is a Senior Director in charge of the Post-Fact Credit Risk and Information Management Division at Warba Bank K.S.C.P. He has over 17 years of experience in Corporate Credit and Risk Management in commercial banks in Kuwait and Lebanon. In addition to his experience in Implementation and Administration of Credit Risk Rating Applications from different vendors in multiple institutions across different geographies, his area of expertise extends to Corporate Credit Assessment, Credit Portfolio Monitoring, Asset Quality Review, Stress testing and implementation of the IFRS9 standard. Tarek holds a master’s degree in finance from Saint-Joseph University - Beirut. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst CFA® charterholder and a Certified Management Accountant CMA®.

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Alex heads the Middle East Implementation Services team for Lending Solutions (CreditLens, QUIQspread, RiskOrigins Limits) based in Dubai. His experiences ranges from client support, functional and technical advisory, solution architecture, integration and pre sales for regional banks and large financial institutions in the Middle East, North Africa and Indian subcontinent. He handles complex implementations projects of Analytics solutions (RAROC, Early Warning Signals), ESG and Climate Risk model integration as well as Origination and Automation solutions using the CreditLens platform. Prior to joining the Dubai office, Alex was working on the Basel solution (RiskAuthority) from Moody’s Analytics based in London. He has been with Moody’s for over 10 years. Alex holds a Master’s degree in Statistics and Decision Making Systems from the National School of Statistics and Information Analysis (ENSAI, France).

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Paul is a senior solution specialist covering various enterprise risk solutions of Moody’s Analytics: Loan Origination, Basel Compliance, ALM/LRM/FTP, and IFRS 9 amongst others. Paul is based in Dubai. His experiences span across client support, functional consultant, and pre-sales, dedicated to banks and financial institutions in the EMEA region. He has a broad functional and technical knowledge of Moody’s software solutions as well as analytics solutions (EDF model, Early Warning Signal, RAROC). He has been with Moody’s for 11 years in our London and Dubai offices. Prior to joining Moody’s, Paul worked for a market data and trading platform in London. Paul holds a Master’s degree in applied mathematics from the University of Cergy-Pontoise (France) as well as a Master’s degree in market finance from the ESLSCA Business School Paris.

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Veer leads Middle East Advisory Services for Banking solutions, based in Dubai and has been with Moody’s Analytics since 2012. His areas of expertise are credit risk measurement and risk management advisory across various functions such as ICAAP, IFRS 9, Stress testing, Risk Based Pricing, Limit setting, and credit risk modelling. He has been part of successful IFRS 9 implementation journey of number banks across Middle East region. He has been instrumental in developing Moody’s RAROC solution. Veer has led various advisory engagements such as credit risk model development for FIs/Real Estate/Corporates/SME/Retail portfolios, bespoke IFRS9/Stress testing model development, ICAAP implementation etc. across US and Middle East region. He has excellent knowledge of Moody’s Analytics quantitative modelling solutions such RiskCalcTM Suit, Impairments solution, portfolio solutions and data products such as Credit Research Database, Default and Recovery Data. Before joining Moody’s more than 10 years ago, he worked with HSBC India into retail credit risk modelling team and was responsible for development and validation of retail PD/LGD scorecards for various retail portfolios such as credit cards, mortgages, personal loans etc. He holds a Master degree in Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology.

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Yasman Moghaddam is a Subject Matter Expert within the Moody’s risk and finance analytics practice across APAC and Middle East. Her areas of focus include Stress Testing, IFRS 9 and some of the key emerging themes including ESG and climate risk management and particularly around financial risk analytics and quantification. Her most recent work has included strategizing with a number of key financial institutions across APAC and the Middle East in designing scalable and fit for purpose ESG and climate risk management frameworks to support risk identification, quantification, integration as part of lending as well as climate stress testing exercises with the aim to address the emerging regulatory requirements as well as enhancing internal processes. Since joining Moody’s, she has been focusing on areas including Stress Testing, IFRS 9, Early Warning Solutions and ESG & Climate Change which she has also participated in a number of events and webinars to discuss emerging trends and thought leadership on these areas. Yasman comes with a wealth of experience from her previous role as a consultant in the Enterprise Risk Management space, working with various Financial Institutions as well as regulators across APAC and the Middle East in the design and implementation of risk management and regulatory frameworks.

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Dmytro is an Economist at Moody’s Analytics and has been with Moody’s for over 7 years. He started his career at Moody’s Prague office in 2015. Before joining Moody’s, Dmytro was doing his doctoral studies in Economics and Econometrics at CERGE-EI in Prague. Dmytro is part of the Industry Practice Lead team and his areas of expertise include various advisory work for credit and market risk modeling, early warning, rating models, stress testing, ESG and climate risks as well as other fields.

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Dinc Alniak is a Director in RiskMatrix’s Business Consulting team. He is responsible for advisory and training activities to support our client banks to fully understand our rating platforms and to use these in a manner that maximizes the benefits to those banks. He has also been involved as a Project Manager in several migration projects from Moody’s RiskAnalyst to CreditLens. Before joining to RiskMatrix in 2016, he worked for nearly 10 years in the banking industry as a senior credit officer and as an in-house lecturer. Dinc has introduced many credit process enhancements to establish and improve banks’ credit culture. He holds a BA and MA degrees in Economics and is expecting to earn his Ph.D. in Business Administration-Accounting & Auditing field in 2022.

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Michalis Kanios leads the integrations and customization team at RiskMatrix. His team delivered several integrations with Moody’s credit lifecycle management solution (CreditLens) since the completion of the migrations from the legacy platform (RiskAnalyst). Prior to his current role, Michalis led several software engineering teams from different industries, such as financial services, maritime and education. Michalis has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Frederick University and a Master’s degree in Advanced Computing from the University of East Anglia.

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Argyro is an Analyst at Bank of Cyprus for the past 9 years, with a focus on Credit Rating Solutions for legal entities. She has participated in the implementation of Credit Lens project for installation of Credit Lens and interface with other Bank’s systems and Data Warehouse. She has, also, participated in projects related to Scorecard Development and Implementation, through Risk Analyst Studio. She also specializes in the implementation of additional dedicated risk solutions such as the IFRS9 Expected Credit Losses calculation as well as the regulatory Stress Test exercises. She is responsible for maintaining and revising the Model Risk Management Framework and the relevant processes within the Bank. Before joining the Risk Division, Argyro, worked as Internal Auditor of the Bank for 3 years. She holds a Master's in Business Administration from Cardiff University and a BSc in Mathematics and Statistics from University of Cyprus.

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George Aresti is an Associate Director in RiskMatrix’s Business Consulting team. He is responsible for training activities to our client banks with the aim of understanding and utilising CreditLens platform in such manner as to maximize the benefits to those banks. He has also been involved as a Project Manager in several migration projects from Moody’s RiskAnalyst to CreditLens as well as in CreditLens implementation projects of new client banks. Before joining RiskMatrix in 2020, George worked for 11 years in the banking industry as a Corporate Relationship Manager/Assistant Relationship Manager. He holds a BA and MSc degrees in Economics.

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