Speakers

Ed Eyerman is the Chief Executive Officer for the European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA), a buyside-only trade association comprised of European leveraged finance investors from more than 60 institutional fixed income managers, including investment advisors, insurance companies, and pension funds. ELFA seeks to support the growth and resilience of the leveraged finance market while acting as the voice of its investor community by promoting transparency and facilitating engagement among European leveraged finance market participants. Ed joined ELFA in January 2025 following a long tenure at Fitch Ratings, where he was Managing Director, Head of European Leveraged Finance. He was responsible for building the market presence and leading the European leveraged finance team: Developing criteria, providing credit ratings, producing data, commentary and research to leading financial sponsors, issuer management teams, their advisors, and investors across bond, loan, private debt and structured credit institutions. Before joining Fitch in April 2003, Ed was an investment banker in Credit Suisse First Boston’s European acquisition and leveraged finance and telecommunications groups. From 1997 to 1998, Ed was in the European high-yield origination and credit research groups at Deutsche Bank. He also worked for Merrill Lynch in New York from 1994 to 1997 as an associate in the corporate bond research department covering Yankee bond issuers. Ed holds a BA in history from Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts and a Masters in International Affairs, Banking & Finance, from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) in New York.