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Entrepreneurship came naturally to Derek White. At age nine he started a newspaper distribution business with his brother, when their father was out of work. While attending Utah State University in the mid-1990s, White formed an events marketing company that had credit card bank First USA as a client, and that became his entrée into financial services and, ultimately, online finance. Impressed with White’s proficiency at attracting account applications, First USA — subsequently acquired by Bank One Corp. and in turn by JPMorgan Chase & Co. — hired him to start a sports and entertainment division. In 2000, after working with First USA’s Wingspan, touted as the world’s first Internet bank, White went to work with the founders of Juniper Bank, moving to Barclays when the U.K. giant acquired the online upstart in 2005. For London-based Barclays, White spearheaded an emerging-markets expansion strategy in 15 countries, and in 2011 he became chief customer experience officer, launching the Pingit mobile platform. With an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, White, 42, has been Barclays’ chief digital and design officer since 2013, and he has laid out a welcome mat to fintech start-ups. “We asked what we could provide beyond financial and human capital — and it was customers,” he says. “Start-ups’ hardest nut to crack is customers.” Barclays has partnered with the Techstars accelerator in London to “create collisions between brilliant people and the right kind of environment for innovation.” They held their first demo day in London a year ago and one in New York last month, where applications ranged from quantum computing to bond trading to blockchain. Says White, “We’re taking the growth opportunities that we have, the new technology we see, and going out to start-ups asking how they could help us create the future of financial services.”

 
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1. James Robinson III & James Robinson IV RRE Ventures 2. Jane Gladstone Evercore Partners 3. Matthew Harris Bain Capital Ventures 4. Steven McLaughlin Financial Technology Partners Advisors and Their Clients Call for New Asset Classes in Model Portfolios Sponsored by BlackRock May 6, 2025 5. Jonathan Korngold General Atlantic

6. Richard Garman & Brad Bernstein FTV Capital 7. Amy Nauiokas & Sean Park Anthemis Group 8. Thomas Jessop Goldman Sachs Group 9. Meyer (Micky) Malka Ribbit Capital 10. Hans Morris Nyca Partners

11. Maria Gotsch Partnership Fund for New York City 12. Marc Andreessen Andreessen Horowitz 13. Barry Silbert Digital Currency Group 14. Jay Reinemann Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria 15. Mariano Belinky Santander InnoVentures

16. François Robinet AXA Strategic Ventures 17. Vanessa Colella Citi Ventures 18. Alan Freudenstein & Gregory Grimaldi Credit Suisse NEXT Fund 19. Justin Brownhill & Neil DeSena SenaHill Partners 20. Rodger Voorhies Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

21. Michael Schlein Accion International 22. Kenneth Marlin Marlin & Associates 23. Rumi Morales CME Ventures 24. Mark Beeston Illuminate Financial Management 25. Vladislav Solodkiy Life.SREDA

26. Fabian Vandenreydt Innotribe SWIFT 27. Derek White Barclays 28. Alex Batlin UBS 29. Jeffrey Greenberg & Vincenzo La Ruffa Aquiline Capital Partners 30. P. Howard Edelstein REDI Holdings

31. Nektarios Liolios Startupbootcamp FinTech 32. Roy Bahat Bloomberg Beta 33. Andrew McCormack Valar Ventures 34. Lawrence Wintermeyer Innovate Finance 35. Janos Barberis FinTech Hong Kong