Management Profiles

Standard & Poor's is led by seasoned professionals with years of experience in the financial services industry. Learn more about them here.

	Deven Sharma President, Standard & Poor's Deven Sharma was named president of Standard & Poor’s, the leading credit ratings company and a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies in 2007. Mr. Sharma joined Standard & Poor’s in 2006 as executive vice president, Investment Services and Global Sales. Before joining Standard & Poor’s, he was executive vice president, Global Strategy at The McGraw-Hill Companies for five years. Mr. Sharma joined The McGraw-Hill Companies in January 2002 from Booz Allen Hamilton, a global management consulting company, where he was a partner. During his 14 years with that firm, he provided guidance to client companies on business strategy and globalization, as well as on branding and sales management. Much of his experience includes work with global corporations in the U.S., Latin America, Europe and parts of Asia. Before joining Booz Allen, Mr. Sharma worked with manufacturing companies, Dresser Industries and Anderson Strathclyde. Mr. Sharma holds a bachelor’s degree from the Birla Institute of Technology in India, a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin and a doctoral degree in Business Management from Ohio State University. He has authored several publications on competitive strategy, customer solutions, sales and marketing. He is chairman of the Board of Directors for CRISIL, a Standard & Poor’s company and India’s leading ratings, research, risk and policy advisory company. Mr. Sharma is a member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s Systemic Resolution Advisory Committee and the Council on Foreign Relations. He also serves on the International Advisory Board of the British-American Business Council and the Asia Society Business Council.

	Pat Milano Executive Vice President, Operations Services Patrick Milano was named executive vice president of Operations Services at Standard & Poor’s in December 2007. In this senior role, with oversight for finance, strategy, business development, information technology, communications, marketing and risk management, he is responsible for a variety of initiatives across Standard & Poor’s that strengthen the organization’s business processes, compliance processes and growth agenda. Pat has held a number of financial positions throughout The McGraw-Hill companies since joining as an accountant for the McGraw-Hill Book Company in 1981. Most recently, he served as senior vice president, Finance and Administration, for Standard & Poor’s. Before that, Pat served as senior vice president, Finance and Administration, for Standard & Poor’s Credit Market Services; and vice president, Finance and Administration, for Standard & Poor’s Investment Services. Pat was honored by The McGraw-Hill Companies with a 2002 Excellence in Management Award. Pat holds an M.B.A. from Monmouth University, a B.A. in Economics from Rutgers University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

	Rita Bolger Senior Vice President, Global Regulatory Affairs, and Associate General Counsel Standard & Poor‘s and McGraw-Hill Financial Rita M. Bolger is Senior Vice President, Global Regulatory Affairs and Associate General Counsel for Standard & Poor’s and McGraw-Hill Financial and has served as head of Global Regulatory Affairs since December 2001. Ms. Bolger has global responsibility for Standard & Poor’s and McGraw-Hill Financials’ relationships and policies with respect to government and regulatory authorities, as well as legal regulatory issues for Standard & Poor’s and McGraw-Hill Financials’ regulated business units. Ms. Bolger is a member of Standard & Poor’s Operating Council. Prior to assuming her current position, Ms. Bolger was Managing Director and Associate General Counsel for Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services where she had worldwide responsibility for Ratings Services’ legal regulatory affairs. She joined Standard & Poor’s in 1990 and held positions in the Ratings Services’ legal department responsible for many aspects of the ratings business. Prior to joining Standard & Poor’s, Ms. Bolger was associated with the law firm of Dechert, Price & Rhoads where she advised Standard & Poor’s on many aspects of the ratings business. Ms. Bolger holds a bachelors degree in Government from Smith College and a law degree from Tulane University School of Law.

	Paul Coughlin Executive Managing Director, Corporates and Government Ratings Paul Coughlin is the executive managing director of Standard & Poor’s Global Corporate & Government Ratings group. The group includes Standard & Poor’s Global Corporate, Financial Services, Public Finance, and Sovereign ratings groups. Paul began his ratings career in 1988 with Australian Ratings, which Standard & Poor's acquired in 1990. He has had first-hand involvement in rating corporations, banks, governments, mutual funds, securitizations, and project financings. In 1995, Paul moved to Hong Kong to establish Standard & Poor’s Hong Kong office and was a founding director of Taiwan Ratings Corp., a joint venture with Standard & Poor's in Taiwan. Returning to analytical practice in 1998, Paul assumed Asia Pacific regional responsibility for Infrastructure and Public Finance Ratings, and in subsequent years, he assumed additional responsibility for Corporate, Sovereign, and Financial Services ratings. Moving to Singapore in 2003, Paul became manager of the broader Corporate and Governments group in Asia upon reorganization of the region's management. He assumed global leadership of the group and relocated to New York in 2005. Prior to his ratings career, Paul worked in economic policy and administrative roles in the Australian government, including as a staff member for then Treasurer and now former Prime Minister, the Hon. John W. Howard. He subsequently spent six years in merchant and investment banking. Paul holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from Australia's Monash University and a Master's degree in Business Administration from Melbourne University.

	James C. Daly, Jr Vice President, Human Resources Jim is vice president, human resources, Standard & Poor’s. In this position, Jim leads the Standard & Poor’s Human Resources organization and directs the human capital strategy, including talent development, organization design, change management, reward system management, recruitment, diversity management, leadership development and succession planning. He ensures that these initiatives help drive the continued growth and competitiveness of Standard & Poor’s business worldwide. Jim brings a strong mix of Human Resources and general management experience to this role. He joined S&P in January of 2007 as vice president of Human Resources for Investment Services and Global Sales. Previously, he was a principal in the venture investment fi rm, Caydal LLC. Prior to co-founding Caydal, Jim held various positions in human resources and training and development for The News Corporation, Kraft, General Foods and American Express. He has served on the boards of several start-up companies.

	Lou Eccleston President, McGraw-Hill Financial Lou Eccleston is president of McGraw-Hill Financial, which includes leading brands and businesses such as S&P Indices, Capital IQ, Valuation & Risk Strategies and MarketScope Advisor. Mr. Eccleston joined Standard & Poor’s in 2008 as executive managing director of Fixed Income Risk Management Services (FIRMS). Before joining Standard & Poor’s, Mr. Eccleston was chairman and chief executive officer of Pivot Inc., a leading provider of communications networks for institutional investors. Previously, he served as president of Global Sales, Marketing and Services for Thomson Financial, leading the integration of separate sales, service and marketing operations around the world into one globally coordinated entity. Mr. Eccleston was also president of the Banking and Brokerage division for Thomson Financial, its largest business operating group at the time, where he led the development and launch of Thomson ONE. Mr. Eccleston also spent 14 years as a managing director with Bloomberg L.P., where he helped build sales and customer service initiatives for the desktop, trading systems, the electronic brokerage business and media operations. Mr. Eccleston holds a B.A. in Economics from Drew University and an M.B.A. in Finance from La Salle University.

	David Jacob Executive Managing Director, Structured Finance Ratings David P. Jacob is executive managing director of Standard & Poor’s Global Structured Finance Ratings group. The group includes Standard & Poor’s CMBS, RMBS, ABS, CDO, and Surveillance ratings groups worldwide. David, who joined Standard & Poor’s in August 2008, has nearly 30 years of experience in fixed income investment analysis and the structured finance markets. During his career, David has worked with a number of well-known financial institutions, including 14 years with Nomura Securities International where he was head of Structuring and Fixed Income Research, U.S.; and later managing director, head of International Fixed Income Research. Through the 1980s and ‘90s David served as managing director, head of Fixed Income Research, at JPMorgan and before that as a vice president at Morgan Stanley in a variety of areas in fixed income, including trading and quantitative analytics. Prior to joining Standard & Poor’s, David was a principle with Adelson & Jacob Consulting, a structured finance consulting firm. He began his career as an analyst at Moody’s Investor Service and Equitable Life Assurance. David received an M.B.A. in Finance and Accounting and an M.S. in Mathematics from New York University.

	Catherine Mathis Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications Catherine J. Mathis was named senior vice president of marketing and communications for Standard & Poor’s in September 2009. Ms. Mathis’s responsibilities include global marketing, public relations and employee communications. She is a member of S&P’s senior management team and serves as its primary spokesperson. Previously, Ms. Mathis had been senior vice president of corporate communications for The New York Times Company since 2007. Before that, Ms. Mathis had been vice president of corporate communications for The New York Times Company since 2000 and director, investor relations since 1997. From 1992 to 1997, Ms. Mathis was vice president of corporate relations at the Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. where she was responsible for investor relations, media relations, public relations, employee communications and event planning. Previously she held various management positions at International Paper Company. In 2006 Ms. Mathis was named Communicator of the Year by the New York chapter of International Association of Business Communicators (IABC). The award is the chapter's highest award, recognizing integrity and excellence in everyday communications or in response to specific crises or challenges. In 2002 the YWCA of New York City selected her as one of its Women Achievers. Ms. Mathis graduated with honors from the University of Minnesota with a B.S. degree in business administration and an M.B.A. degree in marketing and management information systems.

	Alex J. Matturri, Jr. Executive Managing Director, Portfolio Services Alex Matturri is responsible for all aspects of the Index and Portfolio Advisory businesses on a global basis. Standard & Poor's Index and Portfolio Services offers investment professionals around the world an array of choices, from efficiently representative indices to broadly comprehensive benchmarks Prior to joining Standard and Poor’s in 2007, Alex was senior vice president and director of Global Equity Index Management at Northern Trust Global Investments. There he was in charge of all facets of passive equity portfolio management and trading, overseeing a $185 billion passive investment business for the world’s third-largest quantitative manager. He joined NTGI in 2003 with the company’s acquisition of the index and quantitative investment business of Deutsche Asset Management. At Deutsche, he served as director and the senior index investment strategist From 1987 until joining Deutsche in 2000, Alex was vice president and division head at The Bank of New York, where he started and managed the Special Investment Products group which provided investment management, product development and trading for equity derivatives and quantitative strategies. His experience before The Bank of New York included risk arbitrage analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and security analyst at First Fidelity Bank. Alex has a BS in Finance, with honors, from Lehigh University and a JD from the Syracuse University College of Law.

	Tom Schiller Executive Managing Director, Region Head, Asia-Pacific Tom Schiller is executive managing director and region head for Standard & Poor’s in the Asia Pacific region. He is responsible for contributing to Standard & Poor’s global growth efforts by leveraging the company’s significant presence in the region as a leading provider of products and services to customers in Asia Pacific’s credit risk management, wealth management, and data and information markets. Based in Tokyo since 1991, Mr. Schiller has helped build Standard & Poor’s strong regional franchise through a series of management and market development positions held over the years. He joined Standard & Poor's in the United States in 1987 and moved to Japan in 1991 to run Standard & Poor’s Tokyo office until late 1999. In 2000, he returned to Standard & Poor’s corporate headquarters in New York as head of Global Market Development responsible for new product development and Standard & Poor’s expansion into new markets around the world. Mr. Schiller’s experience combines an exceptional foundation in Standard & Poor's range of products and services with an outstanding knowledge of Asia Pacific and the workings of global financial markets. Mr. Schiller assumed his current position in August 2004. Mr. Schiller is a graduate of Northwestern University and also holds graduate degrees in history and business administration from the University of Chicago and Columbia University, respectively. He is a member of the boards of CRISIL, Ltd. and Taiwan Ratings Corporation, Standard & Poor’s affiliates in India and Taiwan.

	Adam H. Schuman Executive Managing Director and Associate General Counsel Adam H. Schuman is executive managing director and associate general counsel, Standard & Poor’s Legal Affairs. Adam reports to Ken Vittor, executive vice president and general counsel, coordinating closely with Deven Sharma, president of Standard & Poor’s. Adam is a member of the Standard & Poor’s Operating Council. Adam has a central role in managing and shaping S&P’s strategy in ratings-related matters arising out of recent market conditions. Adam manages the Ratings Services Legal Department including 16 attorneys globally. In addition, Adam provides ongoing legal counsel as S&P develops and implements further actions designed to strengthen its business and better serve the markets. Before joining The McGraw-Hill Companies in 2003, Adam served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn, New York, specializing in the prosecution of business and securities fraud crimes. He received a commendation from the U.S. Department of Justice acknowledging his work in that area. He also has taught on the subject of federal criminal prosecution as an adjunct professor at Brooklyn Law School. Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Adam practiced civil litigation at the Manhattan law firms of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and Corbin Silverman & Sanseverino, where he was elected to partnership. He also has served as law clerk to U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska in Manhattan. Adam graduated with Honors from Swarthmore College and received his law degree from New York University, cum laude.

	John Weisenseel Senior Vice President, Finance John Weisenseel joined Standard & Poor’s as chief financial officer in December 2007. He is responsible for the entire global finance organization for Standard & Poor’s. These responsibilities encompass all financial activities including budgeting, financial planning, acquisition valuations. John is a member of Standard & Poor’s Operating Council, Credit Market Services Executive Council, and the Enterprise Risk Management Committee. John Weisenseel initially joined The McGraw-Hill Companies as senior vice president & treasurer in September 2004. In this role, he was responsible for all treasury, investor relations, retirement plan financing, and risk management activities. These included global cash and foreign currency risk management, banking, investors and rating agency relationship management in addition to all insurance activities. John was a member of the Pension Investment Committee, the secretary of the Financial Policy Committee and the president of the captive insurance company. Before joining The McGraw-Hill Companies, John was VP & treasurer of Barnes & Noble, Inc. Prior to Barnes & Noble, John spent twelve years at Citigroup working in various capacities within treasury and on the trading floor within the investment banking division. John began his career with the accounting firm of KPMG, where he worked prior to attending graduate school. John received a M.B.A. with concentrations in finance and computer information systems from the University of Texas at Austin. He also received a B.B.A. with a major in accounting from Adelphi University. John is a Certified Public Accountant. John is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Corporate Treasury Management, the conference planning committee for the National Forum on Corporate Finance and the New York Treasurers’ Group. In addition, he was recently named as one of the “100 Most Influential People in Finance for 2007” by Treasury & Risk Magazine.