Assured Guaranty Ltd. has hired Melissa Gribble to expand its reach within the Australian market. An Australian with decades of experience in global financial markets, Ms. Gribble is based in Sydney. She reports to U.K.-based Managing Director and Joint Head of Origination Suparna Dar.

Ms. Gribble will have responsibility for Assured Guaranty?s origination activities in the Australian market, where the company?s financial guarantees have helped provide financing for the Port of Brisbane, Sydney Airport and other projects over the years. Ms. Gribble will focus on sourcing new opportunities for Assured Guaranty?s financial guarantee business in the infrastructure, utilities and structured finance markets. Ms. Gribble has extensive experience in debt and financial markets, capital raising and institutional banking, as well as in the strategic responsibilities of a chief executive tasked with building an operation from the ground up.

Her broad experience includes managing origination teams in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and Hong Kong. Having served for seven years as Global Head of Financial and High-Grade Origination, Capital Markets, for National Australia Bank (NAB), she became Chief Executive Officer of a new financial services firm in 2021. Her NAB career spanned more than two decades and included such roles as Head of Bank Coverage-Australia and Head of Debt Capital Markets-North America.

She holds a bachelor?s degree in Economics from the Australian National University, and a master?s degree in Applied Finance from Macquarie University.