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.
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Ronald Joas
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A director in Standard & Poor’s Insurance Ratings Group. Having joined Standard & Poor’s in May 2006, Ron 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 for entities within the U.S. Insurance Ratings Group. Prior to joining Standard & Poor’s, Ron was on tour in PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP’s National Risk & Quality (National) Office – Financial Instruments group. In that role, he advised both insurance and non-insurance entities primarily on financial instruments, including derivatives/embedded derivatives, share repurchase transactions, debt/convertible debt, preferred/convertible preferred stock, guarantees, beneficial conversion features, insurance contracts, and risk transfer matters. Prior to this tour, Ron provided audit services for several large insurance firms, having served in the assurance and advisory services practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP’s New York office. He was also a personal and commercial lines underwriter and supervisor for the State Farm Insurance Companies, leading a team of underwriters responsible for loss and coverage analyses, product line profitability and viability, and implementation of loss control programs.
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