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Debra Perry joined Conseco's board of directors in June 2004. From 2001 until 2004 she served as senior managing director of global ratings and research at Moody's Investors Service. As senior managing director Perry was in charge of Moody's Americas Corporate Finance and Public Finance Departments. These groups are responsible for ratings of all non-financial corporations in the Americas and for tax-exempt securities in the United States.
During her 12-year career at Moody's she also served as chief administrative officer and chief credit officer with responsibility for credit policy technology human resources and both internal and public communications. In addition she managed the Finance Securities and Insurance Group that rated all non-bank financial institutions worldwide. She also served as a team leader for a Moody's task force on organizational performance one of five task forces established to implement a comprehensive reorganization of the company and she chaired a permanent committee established to examine the impact of asset securitization on corporate creditworthiness.
Before joining Moody's Perry was a director in Fixed Income Research at the First Boston Corporation where she created a group to advise commercial banks on portfolio strategy. Earlier in her career she worked in a variety of commercial banking and capital markets functions at Chemical Bank in New York Paris and London.
Perry holds an undergraduate degree (magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a graduate degree from Yale University. She has taught at Yale and at Barnard College in New York. She also serves on the board of directors of MBIA Inc. (NYSE:MBI) a leading financial guarantor and provider of specialized financial services. | 