Mark Almeida — President of Moody's Analytics at Moody's Corporation

Mr. Mark E. Almeida has been the President of Moody's Analytics, Inc., subsidiary of Moody's Corporation since January 2008. Mr. Almeida is responsible for directing the newly formed Moody's Analytics division and he oversees Moody's Analytics, which comprises Moody's KMV and Moody's Economy.com as well as the sales and marketing of research and analytic products that are produced by Moody's Investors Service, the rating agency. He has been with Moody's for 19 years. He served as Senior Vice President of Moody's Corporation from August 07, 2007 to January 2008. He served as Senior Managing Director of the Investor Services Group (ISG) at Moody's Investors Service, Inc. from December 2004 to January 2008, where he was responsible for sales and development of Moody's portfolio of research products and services. He served as Group Managing Director of ISG from June 2000 to December 2004. He joined the Corporate Finance division of Moody's Investors Service in 1988. He has held a variety of positions with Moody's Investors Service in both the U.S. and overseas From 1993 to 1994, he served for Moody's London office, where he designed and structured a marketing organization in order to seize the capital markets business opportunities anticipated from the development of the European Union and the emergence of a common European currency. Prior to Moody's, he served in Marketing and in Regional Economics for Chase Econometrics, a consulting subsidiary of The Chase Manhattan Bank. Mr. Almeida has a BA from St. Joseph's University and an MBA from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University.