our people

Kathleen DeRose

Secretary
  • Expert in fintech, asset and wealth management, entrepreneurial finance, China political economy
  • Professor, NYU Stern School of Business, Finance Department, and Director for Fintech, NYU’s Fubon Center, leading the university’s fintech initiatives
  • Previously a managing director in senior leadership roles in asset and wealth management at Credit Suisse, quantitative hedge fund, Bessemer Trust, Scudder Stevens & Clark, and JPMorgan Chase. Strategy and digital adaptation, investment products and processes, and a long track record in equity, equity long-short and global multi-asset class portfolio management for institutional, ’40 Act and ultra-high net worth clients. Startup investor in fintech.
  • Non-executive Director, for-profit wealth management software business
  • Lived and worked in New York, London, Zurich, and ShanghaiB.A. Princeton University (American History)
    MBA NYU Stern School of Business (TRIUM Global Program)
    MSc University of Oxford, distinction (Contemporary Chinese Studies)Residence: Manhattan, Shelter Island