Kathleen A

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Making Your Entrepreneurial Spirit Work in a Corporate Environment

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KATHLEEN A. CORBET

Kathleen A. Corbet has been President of Standard & Poor’s since April 2004. Standard & Poor’s is the world’s foremost provider of independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research and data. With 6,300 employees located in 20 countries, Standard & Poor’s has played a leading role for more than 140 years in providing investors with the independent benchmarks they need to feel more confident about their investment and financial decisions. Standard & Poor’s is a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, a leading global information services provider, and Kathleen is a member of the Corporation’s Chief Executive Officer's Council.

Prior to joining Standard & Poor’s, Kathleen served as Chief Executive Officer of the Fixed Income Division at Alliance Capital Management and as a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. During her tenure as head of Alliance Capital’s Fixed Income Division, its assets under management grew to more than $165 billion globally, and it increased market share, revenue and profitability.

For more than 20 years, Kathleen held management positions of growing influence and responsibility at Alliance Capital Management and its parent company, AXA Financial, formerly The Equitable Life Assurance Society. She served as Chairman of Alliance Capital Australia and New Zealand, and from 1998 to 2000 she was Chief Executive Officer of Alliance Capital Ltd., the firm’s European fixed income and equity research and management division, based in London. From 1997 to 1999 she was Chief of Investment Operations and Global Trading.

Kathleen graduated from Boston College with a B.S. in Marketing and Computer Science and received her M.B.A. in Finance from New York University’s Stern School of Business. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the Board of Trustees of Boston College.

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