John Jordan is a managing director and senior member of the Portfolio Surveillance team covering the Western Region.  Prior to his current position, Mr. Jordan was the Utilities Sector Manager of National Public Finance Guarantee Corporation responsible for National’s relationships with energy credits including electric and gas utilities, and non-energy utilities water and wastewater enterprises.  He was responsible for all relationship activities including marketing, underwriting, pricing and portfolio management for the utilities sector.

Previously, Mr. Jordan was a managing director and senior transactor in the Corporate and Municipal Utilities Group of MBIA Insurance Corporation.  Mr. Jordan joined MBIA in 2002 as a new business transactor and subject matter expert for U.S. Investor Owned Utilities.  His initial contribution was setting forth an acceptable new business strategy for IOUs following the credit downturn in that sector.  Subsequently, he expanded his activities to include U.S. municipal, public power and prepay transactions as well as utility and energy project finance globally.  Mr. Jordan also has significant experience with rating agency capital models, pricing strategy and was very active in the 2008 restructuring of MBIA’s insured variable rate debt portfolio.

His energy experience includes ten years of corporate and investment banking at Bank of America which was preceded by eight years of general corporate lending experience at The Bank of New York.  He received his formal credit training at The Bank of New York and held a variety of finance positions at predecessor companies of J.P. Morgan Chase.

Mr. Jordan has an undergraduate degree in business administration from the University of Notre Dame and holds an M.B.A. from Fordham University.