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Carmen is the Market Development team lead for Corporate Solutions across the S&P Global business units. She has been with S&P Global since 2009 and carries vast expertise in product management and development for several disciplines and segments.

Joe Mantone is the News Desk Manager for the U.S. financial institutions group at S&P Global Market Intelligence and the author of a quarterly white paper on M&A and equity capital markets activity. He also hosts the new podcast The Pipeline: M&A and IPO Insights. 

Joe joined the U.S. FIG team in 2008 and covered investment banks for more than 10 years before moving into his current role. Joe has been working as a business journalist for nearly 20 years and previously worked for The Wall Street Journal and the Crain Communications magazine, Modern Healthcare.  Joe is based in New York.

He holds a master’s degree in journalism from Roosevelt University and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Arizona State University.

Dylan has nearly two decades of journalistic experience and currently covers the private equity market for S&P Global Market Intelligence. He previously reported for the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal and was an Editor for the Southwest Journal.

Iuri Struta is a Senior Research Associate at S&P Global Market Intelligence. He specializes in analyzing M&A activity within the technology sector, with a particular focus on fintech and artificial intelligence.

Prior to joining S&P Global in 2022, Iuri conducted research on shareholder activism at Insightia, where, among others, he led the research effort on activism vulnerability assessment. He holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and a master's degree in international business.

Brenon Daly directs the financial analysis of the 451 Research Market Insight and M&A KnowledgeBase products within S&P Global Commodity Insights. He is responsible for all financial coverage within those product lines, as well as supporting investment- and acquisition-related activity by investment banking and private capital clients.

Brenon arrived at S&P Global through its 2019 acquisition of 451 Research. Before joining 451 Research in mid-2006, Brenon worked at research boutique for technology-focused hedge funds, as well as trading equity and options on his own book.

Brenon began his career in 1991 as a founding reporter at the first English-language newspaper in the former Eastern Bloc. Brenon moved to Vienna in 1995 to run the local bureau for United Press International before taking on an analyst position with the Economist Group, where he researched and wrote reports for The Economist Intelligence Unit and the regional publication of The Economist.

In addition to earning a degree from the University of Kansas, Brenon studied at the University of Ulster (Northern Ireland) and the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria).