Board of Directors

PAWEL MOSAKOWSKI is an accomplished fixed income PM, trader and an expert risk manager. He spent 20 years in the institutional fixed income business currently leading Summit Place Advisers, LLC an advisory practice helping insurance companies and asset managers with investment process and risk management solutions. Prior to that Pawel was managing a multi-billion dollar corporate credit portfolio as a senior leader of Deutsche Bank’s Credit Portfolio Strategies Group. An expert in fixed income, derivatives and complex risk, Pawel led a proprietary platform managing portfolio of corporate loans, bonds, derivatives and structured products. He developed comprehensive investment and risk management process and delivered industry leading results during the credit crisis and beyond. Under his leadership DB CPSG was awarded Risk Magazine’s Credit Portfolio Manager of the Year distinction three times. Prior to this Pawel was at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein where he traded Corporate Credit, Emerging Markets and built Credit Derivatives business in North America. Pawel earned his MBA in Finance from New York University’s Stern School of Business and previously studied Mechanical Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology.

MONICA AGGARWAL, CFA, is Team Head of Retail and Consumer in Fitch’s U.S. Corporate Ratings group. She is responsible for the sector team covering retail, consumer products, packaged foods, restaurants, and beverages.

Prior to joining Fitch in September 2007, Monica spent almost ten years in equity research at Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Chapdelaine Institutional Equities covering various retail segments.

Monica earned a BA in economics from Delhi University and an MBA with majors in finance and international business from Fordham University. She is a CFA® charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute and CFA Society New York. Monica serves on the board of Streetwise Partners, a NY based non-profit organization focused on workforce development and on the advisory board of Luminary, a global networking platform empowering women on their professional journey. She also serves as a Scout for Hearstlab that invests in early- stage, women-led startups.

ROBERT SLOWKO, CAIA is a Director at GRESB. Prior to joining GRESB, Robert was a senior member of the MSCI ESG coverage organization spearheading rapid ESG business growth across the East and West Coast of the U.S. Earlier, Robert worked as a Business Development Manager for the Hedge Funds group of Thomson Reuters. He was involved in multiple projects including launching an Emerging Markets group and developing the company's North American Hedge Funds product, marketing and sales strategy. He held a number of positions in the financial industry including International markets trading at Galleon International, senior roles in global funds custody at RBC Dexia Investor Services, foreign exchange trading and economic research.

Robert has been actively involved with FIASI since 2010. He joined FIASI’s Board of Directors in 2014 and served as FIASI’s President from 2017 through 2019. He participated in and was responsible for a number of projects critical to the organization and is currently leading the FIASI’s Marketing Committee.

Robert holds a Master’s of Arts in Economics from Cracow University of Economics and a Master’s of Business Administration in Finance from Fordham University.

MARIAROSA VERDE is a Senior Vice President and Group Credit Officer for the Americas Corporate Finance team at Moody’s Investors Service. She is responsible for maintaining and promoting high quality ratings and works closely with senior analysts and managers to identify emerging credit risks and initiate timely action.

Prior to joining Moody’s in June 2015, Mariarosa was a Managing Director and Head of Credit Market Research at Fitch Ratings. Her responsibilities included examining rating and credit quality trends, conducting in-depth default and recovery studies, and providing insight on key developments in the bond and loan markets. Earlier in her career, Mariarosa was a high yield analyst at the Chase Manhattan Bank.

Mariarosa has published articles on default risk and other credit topics in professional magazines and books. Mariarosa holds a BS and an MBA in finance and economics from New York University’s Stern School of Business. Mariarosa was elected an NYU scholar. Mariarosa was the president of FIASI in 2007-2008.

DIANE VAZZA serves on the Boards of Directors of several financial services, asset management, private equity and healthcare firms.

Diane has broad and deep experience across banking, credit, corporate finance, operational risk, financial regulation, restructuring, sales & trading, and product development. Her career spans leadership roles at S&P Global, Drexel Burnham Lambert, Citibank, Comptroller of the Currency and Chase. Credit named Diane one of the top women globally in credit and fixed income.

She volunteers on Fixed Income Analysts’ Society’s Board of Directors, is a former president, and chaired inaugural Women in Fixed Income conferences in New York City and Boston.

She is a licensed Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and volunteers in her community.