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Mahesh K. Kotecha, C.F.A., President
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 Mr.
Kotecha is President and founder of Structured Credit International
Corp. (SCIC). For ten years prior to forming SCIC, he was a Managing
Director of MBIA Insurance Corporation, CapMAC and CapMAC Asia and an
Alternate Director of ASIA Ltd. (Singapore), which he helped found.
Prior to focusing on Asia, Mr. Kotecha's responsibilities at MBIA
included US deal origination and deal execution, involving such
underlying collateral as student loans, home equity loans, trade
receivables and other corporate and consumer assets and such financing
instruments as Asset Backed Commercial Paper, Term Debt, and
Collateralized Debt Obligations. Before joining CapMAC, Mr. Kotecha was
a Senior Vice President and Director for Market Analysis and Product
Development in the Asset Finance Department at Kidder, Peabody &
Co. Mr. Kotecha led Kidder into the UK mortgage backed securities
markets, structured the first public Collateralized Bond Obligation,
advised International Finance Corporation (IFC) on its first credit
ratings and co-managed a $1.1 billion financing for Turkey.
Until 1987, Mr. Kotecha worked for Standard & Poor's Corporation
(S&P), where he founded and headed the international public sector
credit ratings practice, with responsibility for all credit ratings on
non-US municipalities, sovereign governments, supranational borrowers
as well as European and Japanese financial institutions and industrial
companies owned or largely controlled by national or regional
governments. In Africa, he led the team that did the first ratings of
African Development Bank and in Latin America, he led the initiative to
provide the first ratings of Mexico, including Nafinsa. He also founded
and headed S&P's international structured finance group to provide
ratings for structured products originating outside the US. Prior to
joining S&P, Mr. Kotecha worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York, where he introduced the concept of loan sampling in the
supervision process, helped implement the shared national credit
program and helped foreign central banks invest their dollar reserves
in the US capital markets. Previously he worked at the United Nations
Development Program (UNDP) for three years.
Mr. Kotecha holds a Master's degree in management (1974) from the Sloan
School of Management at MIT, and a Bachelor's degree in physics and
engineering (1970) from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont California. He
is a Chartered Financial Analyst (1985), has been listed in Who's Who
in America and is a member of the US-based Council on Foreign
Relations, where he was an Adjunct Senior Fellow (1999 - 2002) and
Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors' Advisory Committee on Africa. He
served on the Corporate Council on Africa's Commission on Capital Flows
(2002-2003) and is a member of the International Advisory Panel of the
East African Development Bank and the Bretton Woods Committee. Mr.
Kotecha is a partner and a former Board member of BRC Investor Services
(a Colombian rating agency) and currently serves on its Rating
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Sharon Ryan, Senior Financial Advisor
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 Ms.
Ryan is a former investment banker with broad experience in debt and
equity financings for US and non-US clients, both in developed and
developing markets. At Lehman Brothers and HSBC, she structured asset
securitizations and other debt capital markets transactions and
provided credit ratings advice in connection with such financings,
notably the first time securitizations of utility receivables and
commercial vehicle receivables. In the developing markets, she
structured a pre-export financing vehicle for a Latin American
supranational and an export receivables securitization for a Mexican
auto parts manufacturer. In equity capital markets at HSBC, she
structured and placed Rule 144A US tranches of global equity issues for
companies in India, Hungary, Ghana, Thailand, and Mexico.
Ms. Ryan's experience also includes work at: Capital Re Management
Corporation, a financial guarantee reinsurance company, where she
developed underwriting guidelines for reinsurance of securitized
transactions; Standard & Poor's, where she was instrumental in
developing the criteria and due diligence methodologies for rating the
first US non-mortgage asset backed securities (e.g., securities backed
by equipment finance and automobile loan receivables), the first
commercial paper funded conduits, as well as bank supported ratings and
credit enhanced preferred stock; and the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York, where she was an Examiner in the Bank Holding Company area of the
Supervision and Regulation Department specializing in the analysis of
the non-banking operations of money center bank holding companies.
Ms. Ryan holds an MBA from Pace University, an MA in social sciences
from Columbia University and BS in social psychology from Cornell
University. She is also a member of the Rating Committee of BRC
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Roy P. Weinberger, Senior Financial Advisor
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 Roy
P. Weinberger focuses on credit risk and ratings, advising both
institutional investors and issuers of debt securities. Mr. Weinberger
is also a partner and a member of the Rating Committee of BRC Investor
Services S.A., a credit rating agency based in Bogota, Colombia, and a
director of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia-based Palladium Consulting Sdn Bhd.
As a Senior Advisor to SCIC, he has worked on a number of credit
advisory assignments since the firm’s founding in 1999. Mr. Weinberger
has held senior positions with two international rating organizations.
As Director of International Business Development at Thomson Financial
BankWatch, he contributed significantly to the formation of new rating
agencies in the emerging markets of Latin America, Asia and Eastern
Europe, and provided ongoing technical support and training, including
participation on rating committees. Previously, as Managing Director -
Corporate Ratings with Standard & Poor's Corporation, he conceived
and initiated the now common concepts of "CreditWatch" and "Credit
Outlooks," prepared the first guide to rating agency practices ever
published, and developed the first platform for electronic delivery of
ratings and analyses. In earlier assignments with S&P, he managed
the firm's industrial, utility and financial institutions rating
activities and its entry into new rating areas, including international
and structured finance. Mr. Weinberger was intimately involved in the
formation and organization of S&P’s first international ratings
joint venture in partnership with the Stockholm School of Economics.
Mr. Weinberger is a past president and director of the Fixed Income
Analysts Society, Inc. and is a member of The New York Society of
Security Analysts. On NYSSA’s behalf, he developed a course on
Corporate Credit Analysis – Concepts and Techniques. He holds a Master
degree in Business Policy from Columbia University, New York. |
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Roger P. Nye, Ph.D., Senior Financial Advisor
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 Dr.
Nye is a former rating agency analyst from Moody's Investors Service's
public sector unit where he specialized in sovereign and municipal
ratings. Previously he headed the international evaluation department
at Atlantic Richfield Company in Los Angeles and was responsible for
evaluating foreign investment projects from the standpoint of country
risk. Mr. Nye has spent thirty years assessing the economic and
political factors that affect growth, stability and financial health of
governments and financial institutions around the world. In recent
years he has advised central banks in Egypt, Mongolia, Azerbaijan,
Iraq, Moldova, and Tanzania on regulatory matters. He has published
more than three dozen articles and books on investment related topics
and addressed numerous public and private forums on sovereign and
municipal finance. His degrees include a Ph.D. in international
relations from Washington University and a B.A. in political science
from Williams College. |
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Donna M. Davis, Senior Financial Advisor
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 Ms.
Davis has been an independent consultant for the past five years
advising investment banking boutiques, mortgage brokerage firms,
overseas real estate developers, and bond insurers on emerging market
securitizations and structured financings. Her expertise includes CLOs,
transactions backed by overseas workers' remittances, export-backed
loans, future flows, IFC "B" loans, synthetic products, and
international trade receivables. Previously, she worked for two years
each at Banco Santander Investment Securities Inc. on Latin American
securitizations and at Asset Guaranty Insurance Company, where she
executed one of the first overseas workers' check remittances
securitizations. Prior to Banco Santander, Ms.Davis worked at McGraw
Hill / Standard & Poor's, where over ten years her responsibilities
broadened to include the areas of bank credit ratings for Scandinavia,
Belgium, Canada, Netherlands, and Spain as well as emerging market
structured finance ratings. Ms. Davis holds as B.B.A. in finance from
the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and has advanced Spanish
language proficiency.
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Senior International Advisors |
Mr. Jannik Lindbaek,
Former Chairman (Non-Executive) of Den norske Bank and former Executive
Vice President of International Finance Corporation and former Chairman
of Statoil.
Mr. John B. Caouette, Former Vice Chairman of MBIA Insurance Corp., a New York based, triple-A rated financial guarantee company.
Mr. Alex Lam, a former Managing Director, Center Solutions, a former Managing Director of ASIA Ltd. and CFO of CapMAC.
Mr. Andre Cappon, President of CBM Group, an international strategic planning and risk management advisory firm based in New York.
Mr. David Meachin,
Chairman and CEO of Cross Border Enterprises, L.L.C., a New York-based
international merchant bank providing private equity, advisory and
investment management services.
Mr. S. Melvin Rines,
a former Managing Director of Kidder Peabody & Co., where he
specialized in US public finance as well as international financial
institutions and sovereign governments. |
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