Title: Director
Firm: Fitch Ratings
Age: 38
New York-based Anne Tricerri took a circuitous route to becoming Fitch Ratings' director of global infrastructure and project finance.
As an undergraduate at Columbia University, Anne earned a degree in chemical engineering. After college, she realized she didn't want to go into engineering and instead joined a liquefied natural gas ship brokerage and consultancy firm.
This was in the years between 2006 and 2011, when fracking was fueling a massive increase in U.S. natural gas production. As a consultant, she analyzed a few project finance deals and found she liked it.
"That's when I got more interested in the finance side," Anne said. "Because if you can't finance something, it's not going to happen."
She returned to school, this time earning an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business. After graduating in 2013, she went into investment banking and spent nearly four years at BMO Capital Markets, working in the business services and technology sectors.
"I realized I really missed infrastructure," she said. "I was looking to get back into that but still maintain that finance focus, and that's how I made my way to Fitch."
Anne has been at Fitch for more than five years, where she heads the North American toll roads sector.
She leads one of Fitch's largest infrastructure sectors and oversees some of the transportation market's most complex projects, said Fitch analyst Scott Monroe, who nominated her for the Rising Stars award.
Anne helped craft Fitch's COVID-19 traffic projections early in the pandemic and her "forecast proved surprisingly accurate and was cited by third-party traffic and revenue consultancies and other market participants," Monroe said.
Anne said she enjoys the essential nature of public finance.
"It's very tangible, it's something that people use every day, and I really am interested by a lot of the dynamics that come into play when you work with the public sector."
The New York native has earned recognition at Fitch for her reports on topics like emerging automotive technologies. In 2019, she won the Women's Bond Club Rising Star Award.
