Peter Rigby

Peter works with Astia Angels, an international angel investing organization whose mission is to fund exceptional, women-led, high-growth ventures.

Peter was Global Head of Risk Analytics & Research at Standard & Poor’s. He led initiatives to develop quantitative models to analyze financial and market securities data, including the use of machine learning, natural language processing, and sentiment analysis of unstructured data to support credit analysis.

He helped launch Standard & Poor’s project finance rating practice and worked on over $200 billion of power, energy and infrastructure projects. He was the principal author of Standard & Poor's project finance criteria.