Linda Montag

Linda Montag is a Senior Vice President in Moody’s Investors Service’s Retail
and Consumer Goods Group. Currently, she has responsibility for companies in
the consumer goods, beverage and food industries. Since joining Moody’s, her
responsibilities have also included analysis of retailers, packaged consumer
goods and packaging companies, in the Corporate and Industrials Group and
consumer and diversified finance companies, asset management companies, retail
broker-dealers as well as German, Austrian and Swiss Banks in the Financial
Institutions Group. Prior to joining Moody’s, she had 12 years commercial
banking experience including assignments in domestic retail systems conversions,
domestic and international credit departments, international credit liaison
function, and foreign financial institutions account relationship officer at
Mellon Bank NA. She was also Vice President of loan syndications and corporate
lending while at Landesbank-Hessen-Thringen. She has a BA degree in Business
Administration and German from Grove City College and pursued German language
studies at the University of Hamburg, Germany.