A managing director in Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services. Based in New York, Neri is Standard & Poor’s global chief accountant and is responsible for providing direction on the manner in which financial statement information is analyzed and incorporated into Standard & Poor’s financial analysis and ratings considerations. He chairs Standard & Poor’s accounting task force, directs the financial reporting specialists and accounting coordinators supporting Standard & Poor’s credit analysts at the industry groups, and is a member of Standard & Poor’s Analytical Policy Board. In this role, he oversees Standard & Poor’s accounting initiatives through advanced training, internal and external communications, and the establishment of a global internal accounting network. He supports Standard & Poor’s analysts as well as CPAs and chartered accountants in the industry analytic teams in addressing the increasing complexity of emerging accounting and financial reporting matters. He joined Standard & Poor’s in 2002. Prior to that he served in Ernst & Young's National Accounting office as a technical resource for the firm's professionals worldwide. He is a CPA, licensed in New York and California. He serves on the FASB’s User Advisory Council and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the American Accounting Association, the New York State Society of CPAs, and the California Society of CPAs. He holds a B.A. in Accounting and Economics from Tel-Aviv University, an M.B.A. from the Anderson School of Business at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Masters in Taxation from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He has completed the S&P Executive Education program at Columbia Business School and is a recipient of the Mc-Graw Hill Companies’ Excellence in Leadership Award.
