Neil will be responsible for further developing the group's commercial activities surrounding Fitch Research - which provides subscribers with credit research, analysis, ratings and surveillance information - as well as its suite of analytical tools and research data feeds. Based in New York, Neil will report to Thomas Aubrey, Managing Director, Fitch Solutions, London.

Neil joins Fitch Solutions from Bank of New York Mellon (BNYM), where he ran the bank's global provision of fixed income products and services for institutional clients in the structured products and project finance sectors. He also has extensive experience as a credit markets practitioner.

Before joining BNYM in 2007, Neil was Managing Director and Senior Investment Officer at Citigroup Alternative Investments, New York. He has also been a Director at Citigroup Credit Structures, London, where he headed the fixed income investments credit research team; worked in fixed income credit research at Abbey National Plc, London; and in various government and academic roles in Australia and Asia.