Gretchen French
Associate Managing Director, Corporate Finance
Moody's Ratings
Gretchen French is an Associate Managing Director in Moody’s Corporate Finance Group, with responsibility for the Homebuilding, Building Materials and Packaging Team.
Prior to her current role, Gretchen was an Associate Managing Director in Ratings & Research Support (RRS), where she led a team of Associate Analyst Team Managers responsible for managing support analysts in the Corporate Finance, Project and Infrastructure Finance, and Sub-Sovereign Groups in the Americas.
Before joining the RRS team, Gretchen was a Vice President - Senior Credit Officer in the Oil and Gas team in the Corporate Finance Group. In this role, she was a lead analyst on a portfolio of investment grade and high yield exploration and production, refining and marketing, midstream, drilling and oilfield services companies in the US, Latin America and Canada.
Gretchen is an active member of the Women’s Business Resource Group (WBRG) at Moody’s and previously served in role of Co-Chair of the New York WBRG.
Gretchen holds a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts from Vassar College