High Yield/Leveraged Credit Markets Speakers

Meredith Coffey, Executive Vice President, Research & Analysis, Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA)
Ms. Coffey is Executive Vice President, running the Research and Analysis efforts at the LSTA. Ms. Coffey heads up a team of analysts that are responsible for analyzing current and anticipated market developments, helping the LSTA build strategy and improve market efficiency, and providing commentary through weekly newsletters, periodic conferences and webcasts. Ms. Coffey and her team also engage market participants, press and regulators on issues and developments in the global loan market. By presenting broad and unbiased analysis, the LSTA's research team is a non-partisan voice representing all loan market participants. Ms. Coffey is also involved in the LSTA's regulatory and CLO efforts, which help facilitate continued availability of credit and the efficiency of the loan market.   Prior to joining the LSTA, Ms. Coffey was Senior Vice President and Director of Analysis focusing on the loan and adjacent markets for Thomson Reuters LPC. Additionally, Ms. Coffey is a frequent speaker at industry events and has authored chapters in several books about the syndicated loan market.   Ms. Coffey holds a B.A. in economics from Swarthmore College and a graduate degree in economics from New York University.



Steven Miller, Managing Director, Standards & Poor's Leveraged Commentary & Data (LCD)

Steven Miller manages the Standard & Poor's Leveraged Commentary & Data business (LCD), the authoritative source of leveraged-finance news and information. Miller has been involved in developing leveraged market information products since 1990, when he joined Loan Pricing Corporation (LPC) as a secondary reporter. At LPC, Miller was instrumental in the creation of the Gold Sheets, the Goldman Sachs/LPC Loan Index and early efforts to collect and publish secondary loan prices. After leaving LPC in 1995, Miller worked briefly at Chemical Bank and Bankers Trust. Then, in 1996, he co-founded Portfolio Management Data LLC, a firm that pioneered statistical analysis for the leveraged loan market. In 2000, Standard & Poor's, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, acquired PMD, which has since been rebranded Standard & Poor's LCD.  

Since the acquisition, Miller has continued to lead the LCD team at S&P and write commentary for LCD's various publications. At S&P, Miller also co-chairs the S&P/LSTA Index committee alongside David Blitzer, sits on S&P's Risk Committee and Research Counsel, writes for outside publications, including The Deal, to which he regularly contributes, speaks frequently at market conferences and client events, and is quoted periodically in such leading publications as The Wall Street Journal and the FT and has, from time-to-time, appeared on such broadcast media as NPR, CNBC and Bloomberg TV.  

Separate from his work at S&P, Miller has been involved in several entrepreneurial ventures in the loan market. In 1999, Mr. Miller was a founding shareholder and advisor to LoanX, which was later acquired by Markit. Mr. Miller is also a founding shareholder and board chairman at Black Mountain Systems, which is a developer of trade-order entry and credit analysis systems for credit market accounts. BMS's investor group includes principal members of the Carlyle Group's debt management business as well as a dozen prominent loan market players.  

Mr. Miller holds a B.A. in economics from New York University.
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Thomas L. Newberry, Managing Director and Head of Global Leveraged Finance Origination and Syndicated Loans, Credit Suisse, Investment Banking Division
Mr. Newberry is responsible for overseeing the underwriting of all high yield bond, mezzanine and syndicated loan transactions as well as the sale and trading of both par and distressed loan assets. He is also responsible for leveraged finance CLO activities.  

Mr. Newberry joined Credit Suisse First Boston in November 2000 when the Bank merged with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, where he was a Managing Director and Head of US Loan Capital Markets. Mr. Newberry joined DLJ in 1996 from Deutsche Bank where he was a Managing Director and Head of North American Loan Syndications, responsible for all aspects of syndicated loan underwriting and distribution for four years. Prior to that, he was with Toronto Dominion Securities in New York where he was a Director of Loan Syndications. Mr. Newberry began his career with NationsBank (NCNB) where he was a Vice President and Relationship Manager in the corporate banking division. Mr. Newberry is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Loan Syndications and Trading Association.  

Mr. Newberry received a B.A. from the University of Virginia.



Gregory Stoeckle, Senior Portfolio Manager/Head of Bank Loans, Invesco Senior Secured Management, Inc.

Mr. Stoeckle heads Invesco's global bank loan business which manages $10 billion of alternative structures built around investments in the senior debt of LBOs and leveraged credit transactions. He is also a member of the Senior Investment Committee and provides direction for macro strategies across all of Invesco's loan funds.   Mr. Stoeckle joined Invesco in 1999, when the bank loan business was in its nascent stages. He was instrumental in building the business from a domestic platform of less than $1 billion in 1999 into the current global franchise. In addition to his day-to-day involvement with bank loans, Mr. Stoeckle also serves as a member of the senior management committee for the firm's Fixed Income platform. Mr. Stoeckle's career stretches back over 20 years and has been developed through progressively senior roles in banking and investment management. Prior employers include Gleacher NatWest, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, and CoreStates Bank. Mr. Stoeckle is the Vice Chairman of the Board of the Loan Syndications and Trading Association.   Mr. Stoeckle holds a B.S. in Applied Math & Economics from Ursinus College and an M.B.A. in Finance from Saint Joseph's University.