Joe is an Associate Director within the Desktop Product & Market Development team with a focus on the Corporates and Professional Services segment. Full Bio

Joe is an Associate Director within the Desktop Product & Market Development team with a focus on the Corporates and Professional Services segment.

He has been with S&P Global since 2012 working in various roles within the organization, starting in Client Support before moving on to the Ratings organization as an Analyst in the Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities group. Joe then moved to the Commercial organization covering Investment Banking, Private Equity, Professional Services, Corporates and Insurance firms.  He now oversees Product and Market Development for the Corporates and Professional Services workflows with a focus on the S&P Capital IQ Desktop.  Before S&P, Joe worked as an Associate at Dealogic covering Debt Capital Markets. 

Joe received his MBA from the University of Colorado (Boulder) Leeds School of Business and received his bachelor’s degree in History from Saint Louis University. Minimize

Beth Ann Bovino is the U.S. Chief Economist at S&P Global Ratings, based in New York. Full Bio

Beth Ann Bovino is the U.S. Chief Economist at S&P Global Ratings, based in New York. In this position, she develops S&P’s U.S. economic forecasts and authors the monthly U.S. Economic Forecast, the quarterly U.S. Risks to the Forecast, the weekly Financial Notes and the Weekly Economics Call. Beth Ann has created Industry Drivers reports for analyst research. She is quoted regularly in the press and has appeared on many major television programs. Further, she has written many articles for popular and professional publications.

Before joining Standard & Poor’s in February 2004, Beth Ann spent over ten years doing economic and market research with Sungard Institutional Brokerage, UBS Warburg, and the Federal Reserve.

The Wall Street Journal recognized Beth Ann as the most accurate forecaster of the U.S. economy in 2013.

Beth Ann holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, a master's degree in International and Development Economics from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University.  Minimize

Joe Mantone is the News Desk Manager for the U.S. financial institutions group and the author of Market Intelligence's quarterly white paper on M&A and equity capital markets activity. Full Bio

Joe Mantone is the News Desk Manager for the U.S. financial institutions group and the author of Market Intelligence's quarterly white paper on M&A and equity capital markets activity. He joined the U.S. FIG team in 2008 and covered investment banks for more than 10 years before moving into his current role. Joe has been working as a business journalist for nearly 20 years and previously worked for The Wall Street Journal and the Crain Communications magazine, Modern Healthcare.  Joe is based in New York.

He holds a master’s degree in journalism from Roosevelt University and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Arizona State University. Minimize

John is Partner and US Deals Sector Leader with PwC.

James Socas is a Managing Director in Blackstone’s Tactical Opportunities Group. Mr. Socas has been involved with the firm’s investments in VectraAI, FireEye, Snowflake, Wiz, Diligent, Episerver, and Titus. Full Bio

James Socas is a Managing Director in Blackstone’s Tactical Opportunities Group. Mr. Socas has been involved with the firm’s investments in VectraAI, FireEye, Snowflake, Wiz, Diligent, Episerver, and Titus.

Before joining Blackstone, Mr. Socas was co-managing partner of Updata, a boutique growth equity firm focused on the software industry. He earlier served as a Managing Director at Credit Suisse First Boston and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, providing mergers & acquisitions and capital raising advice to companies in the global software industry. He later joined the senior management team of one of his investment banking clients, Symantec, as Head of Corporate Development, leading its strategic acquisitions, alliances and corporate venture investing.

He has served on the board of managers of the University of Virginia Alumni Association, the board of trustees of the Potomac School, the Board of Corrections for the Commonwealth of Virginia, and is a member of the New America Alliance. He is an honors graduate of the University of Virginia and a graduate of Harvard Business School.  Minimize

Chris Ventresca is Global Chairman of Investment Banking and Mergers & Acquisitions at J.P. Morgan and a member of the Global Banking Executive Committee. Full Bio

Chris Ventresca is Global Chairman of Investment Banking and Mergers & Acquisitions at J.P. Morgan and a member of the Global Banking Executive Committee. He has been with J.P. Morgan for over 30 years and prior to this role, served as Global Co-Head of Mergers & Acquisitions. He has advised on over $1 trillion of announced M&A transactions including a variety of strategic acquisitions, mergers, spin-offs and sales, as well as numerous hostile defense and shareholder activism situations. Mr. Ventresca received an MBA in Finance from the New York University Stern School of Business and received a BSE in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University. Minimize