Jessica Little
Head of Business Engagement & Technology Support

S&P Global

Jessica Little is a seasoned professional with over 15 years of experience in engagement, project management, and technical operations. As the current Head of Business Engagement and Technical Support in Commercial & Marketing Technology, she has demonstrated a consistent commitment to achieving excellence and driving success in complex and dynamic environments. She has led cross-functional, global teams in the successful delivery of high-impact projects, ensuring alignment with business goals and client satisfaction. Jessica has a proven track record of driving efficiency, process improvement, and stakeholder engagement through expert project management. 

In her current role as a senior leader of technical operations, Jessica oversees a diverse team of professionals, guiding them to meet and exceed performance targets. She is recognized for her strategic leadership, driving innovation, optimizing operational processes, and delivering measurable results. She thrives on challenges and is dedicated to achieving organizational success. 

Marisa Taylor

Head of Commercial Technology Architecture and Engineering

S&P Global

Marisa Taylor is the Head of Commercial Technology Architecture and Engineering where she is responsible for overseeing the enterprise implementation of Salesforce.

She leads a global team of architects, business analysts and developers, quality assurance engineers and the DevOps program.

Marisa joined S&P Global as a Business Analyst, leading an enterprise-wide order to cash transformation among many other large-scale projects. Always ready for a good brainstorming session, Marisa coaches her team to think creatively to find solutions that are scalable, flexible, and following best practices.

Prior to joining S&P Global, Marisa spent much of her career in the non-profit industry. Most recently she held a consulting role helping nonprofits implement and enhance their Salesforce capabilities. Marisa began working in the Salesforce ecosystem as an end user and quickly fell in love with the technology. She has over 15 years of project management, web development database management experience. She holds 13 technical certifications, is a certified Salesforce Application Architect and working towards the Certified Technical Architect designation. She has a Masters of Technology Management at Georgetown University. She received her B.S. in Information Technology from Western Governors University and Certificate of Negotiation and Conflict Resolution from the University of New Mexico.

Natalia Kuzmina
Head of Agile Practices

S&P Global

Natalia Kuzmina, PhD is a Head of Agile Practices at S&P Global Ratings division focusing on successfully leading large-scale Agile Transformations, Enterprise Agile coaching, mentoring, and teaching. Being a passionate Agilist, Technologist, and a creative problem-solver, Natalia promotes sustainable development with the people first culture. Always leading with purpose and empathy, Natalia fosters Agile values, principles, practices and is a highly motivated lifelong learner. 

Natalia holds a PhD in Information Technology and Master of Computer Science degrees. 

Richard Hunter
Senior Director

S&P Global

Richard Hunter is Senior Director at S&P Global Ratings Technology, where he leads the firm’s Business Intelligence(BI) & Data Analytics platforms.  In his role, Richard is responsible for next generation BI platforms, development, and expert services across multiple business and data domains.   
  
Prior to S&P, Richard has a demonstrable success record of delivering excellence across data engineering, data governance, and business intelligence solutions for buy-side financial services firms including State Street, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and APG Investments.   
  
Richard earned his BS degree in Finance from Rutgers University as well as multiple certifications including Amazon Certified Solutions Architect, Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), SAFe Agilist, and Certified Scrum Master (CSM).