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

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 also hosts the new podcast The Pipeline: M&A and IPO Insights.  

 
Joe 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

As Global Head of Private Markets & Thought Leadership, Ruth Yang is responsible for developing and expanding S&P Global Ratings’ coverage of private credit alongside the franchise’s market engagement in both public and private markets through thought leadership outreach. Full Bio

As Global Head of Private Markets & Thought Leadership, Ruth Yang is responsible for developing and expanding S&P Global Ratings’ coverage of private credit alongside the franchise’s market engagement in both public and private markets through thought leadership outreach. She serves as the Chair of the cross-divisional S&P Global Private Debt Research Lab. 

Previously, she led the company’s Credit Research & Insights research team, overseeing the creation and publication of macro-credit and thematic research, risk assessments, rating transition analyses, and credit market forecasts while governing the Credit Conditions Committee (CCC) process. Ruth has more than 25 years of experience in the leveraged finance markets—including with Fitch Solutions as Managing Director for Leveraged Finance Intelligence, where she was responsible for developing their leveraged finance offerings; and with Leveraged Commentary & Data, where she managed leveraged finance content and operations globally for more than 15 years. 

Ruth received an A.B. with honors from Harvard University. Minimize

Dylan has nearly two decades of journalistic experience and currently covers the private equity market for S&P Global Market Intelligence. Full Bio

Dylan has nearly two decades of journalistic experience and currently covers the private equity market for S&P Global Market Intelligence. He previously reported for the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal and was an Editor for the Southwest Journal. Minimize

Satyam Panday is a Senior Economist in the Global Economics and Research Group at S&P Global Ratings, based in New York.  Full Bio

Satyam Panday is a Senior Economist in the Global Economics and Research Group at S&P Global Ratings, based in New York. In this position, he develops U.S. economic forecasts for ratings, provides insight into U.S. macroeconomic outlook, and develops thought pieces on economic policy actions. Before joining S&P Global Ratings in July of 2013, Satyam taught undergraduate and graduate economics courses at Boston College and Brandeis University from 2011 to 2013. Previously, he had been a research fellow in the macroeconomic analysis division at the Congressional Budget Office in Washington D.C. Earlier in his career, he spent several years at MassMutual Financial Group as an actuarial analyst in their mortality research and quantitative modeling team. Satyam holds a Ph.D. in International Economics and Finance from Brandeis University. He specialized in macroeconomics, development economics and applied econometrics. He has an undergraduate degree in Mathematics from St. Olaf College in Minnesota and received his MBA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s Isenberg School of Management. Dr. Panday is a member of American Economic Association, National Association of Business Economists, and ECOMOD Global Economic Modeling Network.  Minimize