Mihoko Manabe Associate Managing Director, Corporate Finance Group Moody's Investors Service

Mihoko Manabe is Associate Managing Director of Moody’s Japan Kabushiki Kaisha. Based in Tokyo, Mihoko heads a team of Corporate Finance, Infrastructure Finance and Sub-sovereign analysts. She oversees ratings and research on over 100 Japanese issuers across a wide range of industrial, utility and public sectors and serves as rating committee chair. Mihoko is also a member of Moody’s Japan’s Board of Directors and Oversight Committee.

Prior to her appointment to her current position in 2017, Mihoko worked at Moody’s New York headquarters, where she was responsible for the ratings of North American utilities and energy companies and authored rating methodologies and global sector research.

Mihoko holds a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Wellesley College. A Chartered Financial Analyst, she is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society Japan.

Gerwin Ho Vice President - Senior Credit Officer, Corporate Finance Moody's Investors Service

Gerwin Ho is a Vice President–Senior Credit Officer with the Corporate Finance Group in Asia. Based in Hong Kong, he covers a portfolio of Chinese corporates, including automotive-related, manufacturing and consumer-related companies.

Before joining Moody’s, Gerwin was a Director with Citigroup’s Equity Research Division in Hong Kong, where he headed the analysis of automotive companies in Asia and analyzed Chinese automotive and industrial companies.

He has also analyzed automotive, industrial, consumer and healthcare companies in China and Korea while working at Bear Stearns, ABN AMRO, Credit Suisse and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

Gerwin holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Toronto and an International MBA from York University.

Mariko Semetko Vice President – Senior Credit Officer, Corporate Finance Group Moody's Investors Service

Mariko Semetko is a Vice President – Senior Credit Officer at Moody’s Investors Service. Currently based in Tokyo, she is responsible as the lead analyst covering Japanese corporate finance companies, including the shipping, automotive and

telecommunications sectors. Throughout her career at Moody’s, she has covered a wide range of sectors including power and gas utilities, rails, oil and gas, retail, apparel, beverage, tobacco, packaged goods, durables and manufacturing, among others, both in the

U.S. and Japan. She has extensive experience both in the investment grade and high yield spaces. Mariko transferred to the Tokyo office in 2013 after working in the New York office for seven years. Mariko held several credit positions prior to joining Moody’s. She holds a B.A. from the College of William and Mary.

Matthias Heck Vice President – Senior Credit Officer, Corporate Finance Moody's Investors Service

Matthias Heck is a Vice President – Senior Credit Officer within Moody’s European Corporate Finance Group, based in Frankfurt. He is Moody’s Lead Analyst for European Automotive Suppliers. Previously, Matthias covered a diverse portfolio of manufacturing, business services, real estate and consumer goods companies based in Europe. He also coordinated Moody’s Global Construction Industry Outlook.

Matthias has over 18 years of experience in corporate ratings and financial analysis from a credit and equity perspective.

Matthias joined Moody’s in 2013, as a Senior Analyst of the Infrastructure Finance Team in London. Prior to this, Matthias worked for Macquarie, Sal. Oppenheim and Banco Santander as an equity research analyst focussing on European utilities. In addition to producing idea-driven sector and company research reports and communicating his analysis to institutional investors, Matthias also accompanied several equity capital market transactions.

Matthias is a CFA charterholder and holds the CEFA qualification from the German Association of Financial Analysis and Asset Management (DVFA). Matthias has a degree in Business Administration from the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW), Mannheim, Germany.