Standard & Poors announced that James West and Roderick Gonggrijp have both joined its European evaluations team.
James West joins Standard & Poors as Senior Structured Finance Evaluator and Roderick Gonggrijp as Senior Corporate Evaluator. Previous to this, both James and Roderick spent five years at FT Interactive Data. Mr West will initially be responsible for building the teams new European ABS/MBS Evaluation model and expanding Standard & Poors coverage of more complex securities. Mr Gonggrijp will concentrate on developing the corporate and high yield debt evaluations service.
Peter Jones, Director of European Securities Evaluations at Standard & Poors, said: We are delighted that two such experienced Evaluators have chosen to join Standard & Poors. Our Evaluated Pricing business has seen a huge growth in demand over the last twelve months. With these appointments we will be able to reach out to more customers at the same time as providing an even more efficient, high-quality service to existing ones. Standard & Poors will continually look to extend its offering to the market by investing in its people and infrastructure as all our recent initiatives show.