John B. Caouette is the former vice chairman of MBIA InsuranceCorporation and is currently Chairman of Channel Capital Group, aEuropean-based credit derivative products company.
Edward I. Altman, PhD, MBA, is the Max L. Heine Professor ofFinance at the Stern School of Business, New York University.Previously, he chaired the Stern School's MBA Program for twelveyears. He has been acclaimed as the world's leading academic oncredit risk and distressed and high-yield debt for most of hisforty-year career.
Paul Narayanan is Director of Credit Portfolio Analytics atAmerican International Group, Inc. He has been involved with creditrisk management for more than two decades and in the developmentand deployment of analytical solutions for credit issues.
Robert W. J. Nimmo is the former group risk director of BarclaysPLC, where he was responsible for all the risk managementactivities of the group covering credit, market, operational risk,and compliance. He was also the chief risk officer for WachoviaCorporation (2000?2001) and for Westpac Banking Corporation(1993?2000).