The LCD Team | Leveraged Commentary & Data

	Marina Lukatsky - Senior Director/Head of LCD Research Marina manages research content for the Leveraged Commentary & Data (LCD) business of PitchBook. She joined LCD in 1999 as an analyst and has held various analytical and management roles on the LCD Research team over the years. Marina is responsible for developing analytics and commentary detailing trends in the global leveraged finance market. She also contributes commentary to LCD News on a range of topics, including loan index performance, recovery rates, market technicals and other trends.
	Tim Cross - Managing Editor Tim has been with LCD since 2001, first to edit LCD news/analytical copy and oversee development of the lcdcomps.com news platform, then to oversee the group's IT team and application development, then to direct LCD's social media/digital efforts (if you haven't joined LCD's LinkedIn group, you should - there's more than 14K members), and most recently as Managing Editor. Before LCD Tim spent eight years as managing editor at LPC/Reuters, editing the company's flagship publication, Gold Sheets, running the U.S. and London editorial groups, writing news stories, and overseeing league tables. Before LPC Tim was managing editor of Bank Loan Report, writing news and feature stories for that weekly, as well as its sister publication, Investment Dealers' Digest.
	Miyer Levy - Director, Head of Secondary Research Miyer joined LCD in 2004 as a leveraged loan analyst. Since 2007 he has been managing the Morningstar’s US and European Leveraged Loan Indices, which are designed to measure the performance of the leveraged loan market. Miyer is a co-chair of the Morningstar® LSTA® Index Commitee.

	John Atkins John has written about the financial markets for more than 20 years, including coverage of the high-grade corporate bond markets since 1993. Prior to joining LCD in May 2011, John wrote for Reuters, Thomson, and IDEAglobal.
	Jon Hemingway Jon has covered financial markets for over 20 years and has been with LCD since 2008. His main area of focus is the loan primary market but has covered high-yield primary and secondary markets as well, as middle-market financing. Prior to joining LCD Jon covered the investment-grade and high-yield bond markets for Thomson IFR.
	Nez D'Sousa Nez joined LCD in 2004 to manage the company's research analysts and help to ensure the accuracy of U.S. research. In 2012 Nez moved to sales and marketing, where he created LCD's web demos process and trained clients to take advantage of the full scope of LCD's customer-facing platforms. Nez is now LCD's Director of Market Development. Prior to joining LCD Nez was the president of Jupiter Styles, Inc., an international import export business.
	Cuong Huynh Cuong joined leveraged loan index team at LCD in 2010 to track the U.S. and European secondary loan markets, through their respective indices. Since then, he has expanded his coverage to include high-yield bonds and middle-market loans on both the primary and secondary side. Prior to LCD, he focused on data management for structured finance and school evaluation at S&P Global.
	Gayatri Iyer Gayatri covers the high-grade corporate bond market for LCD. She has worked in online, broadcast, and print media in five countries, covering finance, international affairs, and the arts. Prior to joining LCD Gayatri reported on the private placement market for SourceMedia. She has also covered M&A and risk management in various sectors.
	Brenn Jones Brenn has spent the last 10 years editing and designing news stories and analytical reports for LCD. He also writes about broader economics and sports, and dabbles in literary fiction. His articles have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cloud259.com, and other outlets (as well as LCD's leveraged finance blog on Forbes).
	Rachelle Kakouris Rachelle covers the U.S. leveraged finance markets with a focus on stressed and distressed credits. Before joining LCD, Rachelle reported for Reuters and IFR on the U.S. high-yield corporate bond market in New York, and prior to that on sovereign and covered bonds as a markets reporter for IFR Magazine and IFR Markets in London during the height of the financial crisis.
	Richard Kellerhals Richard focuses on speculative-grade and investment-grade pro rata bank loans and bridge financing. Before joining LCD , he covered the primary and secondary institutional loan markets, CLOs, DIP financings and distressed loans for Leveraged Finance News. While at LFN, he occasionally wrote for American Banker. Prior to that, Richard covered defined contribution plans for Institutional Investor. He has also had numerous arts and entertainment features published in Westword and the Charleston City Paper—two alternative weeklies in Denver, Co. and Charleston, S.C.
	Jakema Lewis Jakema reports on the U.S. high-yield corporate bond market. Prior to joining LCD Jakema covered leveraged finance, traditional private placement debt and defined-benefit pension fund investments for SourceMedia.

	Taron Wade Taron is a Director in LCD’s London team, leading European research. She most recently was a Director in European Corporate Research team at S&P Global Ratings, with a particular focus on the capital markets. Prior to that she wrote about the credit markets for breakingviews.com and was loans and leveraged finance editor for EuroWeek (now Global Capital). Taron spent the first five years of her career writing for various capital market newsletters published by Institutional Investor, both in New York and London. She graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Applied Economics and Business Management.
	Alan Zimmerman Trained as an attorney, Alan has more than 25 years experience in financial journalism. Alan began covering bankruptcies in 1989 at Dow Jones & Co. where, among other things, he founded and for three years edited the newsletter, The Daily Bankruptcy Review. For seven years he was editor-in-chief for SNL Financial, a news and data company focused on the bank & thrift, financial services, real estate, energy and media/communications sectors, developing proprietary news coverage and supervising the newsroom. In 2008, he returned to the bankruptcy/distressed world and to hands-on reporting, establishing and developing coverage in the sector for Leveraged Commentary & Data. His first day was Sept. 15, 2008 – the day Lehman went under – an omen if there ever was one. Situations he has covered since include almost all major Chapter 11 cases filed since the meltdown, including Chrysler, GM, Lyondell, Six Flags, Visteon, Dynegy, American Airlines and Kodak.