Andreas Karaiskos

Chief Executive Officer

Andreas Karaiskos is the CEO of Fitch Learning. With more than 20 years’ experience in leadership positions Mr Karaiskos has developed and managed numerous teams and businesses focused on delivering high quality education and services to the financial services industry.

Mr Karaiskos is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), a fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (FCCA) and founding member of the UAE’s ACCA Advisory Committee.

Michael Berns

Head of AI, Eclipse Foundation

Michael Berns is an esteemed Digital and AI leader with over 23 years of international experience, including 13 years dedicated to AI solution development, delivery, and product ownership, alongside a decade focused on the Fintech and RegTech sectors. An expert in digital analytics and spearheading AI initiatives, Michael has a proven track record of leading cross-functional teams to achieve significant revenue growth and operational efficiencies. His contributions to AI leadership have been recognized by industry analysts Gartner and Forrester, supported by an extensive portfolio of over 100 publications.

Kaitlin Howard

Head of Unsecured Funding - Credit, New York, Blue Owl

Kaitlin Howard is a Managing Director on the Credit Finance and Capital Markets team at Blue Owl, where she serves as Head of Unsecured Funding. She has more than 15 years of leadership experience in investment banking and financial services, with deep expertise across unsecured funding, bank relationship management, and capital markets execution. At Blue Owl, Kaitlin oversees the unsecured funding strategy and manages key banking partnerships for the firm’s BDCs. She also leads a team responsible for arranging and managing corporate-level revolving credit facilities, Credit Platform sublines, and rating agency engagement and relationship management for the BDCs, ensuring the firm maintains robust and diversified financing sources.

Belinda Ghetti

Head of Structured Credit Alternative Products, Fitch Ratings

Belinda Ghetti is a seasoned structured finance professional with deep expertise in credit ratings and structured credit products.

She leads the Structured Credit Alternative Group at Fitch Ratings, where she focuses on non-traditional private credit securitizations, credit fund finance, rated note feeders, asset-based finance (ABF), and Significant Risk Transfer (SRT) transactions. Prior to Fitch, Belinda served as Co-Head of U.S. Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs) at S&P Global.

She is a recognized thought leader who regularly engages with investors, issuers, arrangers, and regulators, and has represented her employers in numerous conference panels and media appearances.

Greg Fayvilevich

Financial Institutions / Global Head of Fund & Asset Management, Managing Director, Fitch Ratings

Greg Fayvilevich is the global head of Fitch Ratings’ fund and asset management group. Greg has worked at Fitch Ratings for over fifteen years, holding senior analytical positions in Fitch’s US funds and financial guarantee groups. Prior to joining Fitch, he was a financial analyst at Chubb and holds a Bachelor’s degree in finance from Rutgers University.

Edward James

Founding Director, RCQ Associates

Edward James is the Founding Director of RCQ Associates with over 18 years of hiring experience within the Credit sector. He has a strong technical understanding within Financial
Markets and in particular Credit. He founded RCQ Associates intending to make a difference as a specialist headhunter focusing on great market understanding and going the extra
mile. Ed has promoted himself as an advocate of improved diversity in the workplace, and has been an invited speaker at various industry conferences, and on behalf of LinkedIn to provide guidance of how to make the most out of the platform.

Zachary Griffiths

Head of Macro Strategy, CreditSights

Zachary Griffiths joined CreditSights in August 2022 as a Senior Strategist covering U.S. Investment Grade Credit. Immediately prior to joining CreditSights, he was a Macro Strategist at Wells Fargo Securities primarily focused on USD rates, inflation and government bond supply. He frequently appears on key financial news networks such as Bloomberg TV, CNBC and Yahoo Finance. His work is also regularly quoted in major financial news publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and Reuters. He is also a CFA charterholder.