Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA)

In a rapidly changing financial environment, learn about KBRA’s approach to ESG in the credit rating process and how it is keeping pace as issues evolve.

 

Patrick Welch is Chief ESG & Ratings Policy Officer at Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA), responsible for leading all aspects of KBRA’s commitment as an ESG-focused firm, delivering to investors the highest quality credit analysis and research. Prior to this role, Pat served as KBRA’s chief credit officer for five years.

 

Previously, Pat worked for 19 years at Goldman Sachs, where he served as a vice president within the Credit Risk Management and Advisory Department, and as deputy chief credit officer at Goldman Sachs Bank USA.

 

Previously to Goldman Sachs, Pat spent seven years in the Structured Finance Group at Standard & Poor’s (now S&P Global Ratings), where he rated numerous asset classes. He began his career as an analyst at Security Pacific National Bank.

 

Pat holds both a B.S. and MBA from Cornell University.

 

Van Hesser is a Senior Managing Director and Chief Strategist at KBRA, where he is responsible for commenting on market and economic developments and their impact on credit markets. Previously, he led the company’s Financial Institutions and Corporates credit rating groups. Van has been named to Institutional Investor Magazine’s All-America Fixed Income Research Team rankings 10 times across three categories.

 

Prior to joining KBRA, Van was a managing director in the Financial Institutions Group at Wells Fargo Principal Investments. Previously, he worked at HSBC Securities for 10 years, serving as managing director and global head of Credit Research and head of U.S. Fixed Income Research.

 

Van also held senior sell-side corporate bond research roles covering financial institutions at Credit Suisse First Boston and Goldman Sachs, as well as a corporate finance position in Salomon Brothers’ Financial Institutions Group. He started his career as a bank examiner at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

 

Van earned a B.S., cum laude, from Fordham University and an MBA from Yale University.

 

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