Azar Farehi

Head of Program Management

As the Head of Program Management, Azar works alongside key stakeholders, overseeing the completion of multiple development projects helping to achieve Credit Benchmark’s overarching tech objectives.
Prior to this, she was the Operations Team Lead, working on Credit Benchmark’s operations software applications and managing the development team and communications with the content and data teams.
Before joining Credit Benchmark, Azar was at Geeks Ltd, managing development teams working on multiple applications. She has a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering from the University of Southampton.

Credit Benchmark brings together internal credit risk views from over 40 leading global financial institutions. The contributions are anonymized, aggregated, and published in the form of consensus ratings and aggregate analytics to provide an independent, real-world perspective of credit risk. Risk and investment professionals at banks, insurance companies, asset managers and other financial firms use the data for insights into the unrated, monitoring and alerting within their portfolios, benchmarking, assessing and analyzing trends, and fulfilling regulatory requirements and capital.