Moody's Corporation Names Jennifer Elliott Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer
New York (ots/PRNewswire)
Moody's Corporation has named Jennifer Elliott Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer. Ms. Elliott will be responsible for all aspects of Moody's global human resource activities, including recruiting, employee relations, compensation and benefits, organizational development, and human resources information systems.
Ms. Elliott has been with Moody's for over 10 years, first joining the Sydney office in 1993 as an analyst in the Structured Finance Group. In 1996, she transferred to Moody's London office, where she was a Vice President - Senior Credit Officer responsible for rating asset-backed commercial paper and term transactions across Europe. Since 1999, she has been head of Moody's Australia. Ms. Elliot will relocate to Moody's New York headquarters from the company's Sydney office.
"We believe that Jennifer Elliott's extensive ratings business knowledge and broad international experience will enable her to support the strategies of our operating units around the world with successful human resources priorities, policies and operations," said John Rutherfurd, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Moody's Corporation.
Prior to joining Moody's, Ms. Elliott worked as a banking and finance lawyer at Clayton Utz, a law firm located in Sydney, Australia. She received her BA in English Literature and LLB from the University of Sydney and earned an MA in Southeast Asian Business Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University.
Moody's Corporation (NYSE: MCO) is the parent company of Moody's Investors Service, a leading provider of credit ratings, research and analysis covering debt instruments and securities in the global capital markets, and Moody's KMV, a leading provider of market-based quantitative services for banks and investors in credit-sensitive assets serving the world's largest financial institutions. The corporation, which employs approximately 2,500 employees in 18 countries, had reported revenue of US$1.4 billion in 2004. Further information is available at http://www.moodys.com.
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Contact:
Frances G. Laserson, Vice President, Corporate Communications,
+1-212-553-7758, fran.laserson@moodys.com, or Michael D. Courtian,
Vice President, Investor Relations/Corporate Finance,
+1-212-553-7194, michael.courtian@moodys.com