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KAREN WHITE
Job title: Chief executive officer
Company: RMS
Karen White is the chief
executive officer of RMS. She is
an accomplished leader in the
technology industry, with a 25-year
track record of leading, innovating
and scaling global technology
businesses. She is an expert at
bringing technology, innovation,
data and operations together to
help drive digital transformation.
White started her career in
Silicon Valley in 1993 as a senior
executive at Oracle reporting to CEO Larry Ellison. Her global
responsibilities included business development during a time of
massive transformation in the computer industry. During her seven
years at Oracle, the company’s revenue grew to $10 billion, profits
increased nearly 65x, and the market valuation grew to more than
$150 billion.
Most recently, White was president and COO at Addepar, a leading
fintech company serving the investment management industry with
data and analytics solutions that are replacing decades-old legacy
systems with leading-edge tech. Addepar’s SaaS platform now
supports $800 billion in total assets and it counts some of the world’s
leading global financial services firms as customers and partners.
Prior to Addepar, White was CEO and chairman of the board
at Syncplicity, a leading enterprise file sync and management SaaS
business aimed at enterprises as well as the mid-market. She led the
company from first product launch to 30,000 customers, culminating
in the acquisition of Syncplicity by EMC in 2012.
Previously, she led worldwide corporate and business development
at SolarWinds, a top IT and network management software company
whose customers included the Fortune 500. The company was listed
on the Nasdaq with a successful IPO in 2009, valuing the business at
nearly $1 billion.
White is on the board of directors at Varo Money, a mobile banking
fintech that seeks to be the first fintech national bank in American
history, and has applied for a national bank charter.
PETA WHITE
Job title: Senior managing director, head of North
America property reinsurance
Company: Markel Re
Peta White is senior managing
director, head of North America
property reinsurance, at Markel
Global Re following the merger of
Markel and Alterra in 2013. She
is co-head of global reinsurance
operations.
Previously, she served as
managing director, head of
international property catastrophe
reinsurance for Alterra Bermuda,
having joined the company in 2006.
From 1998 to 2005, White was with ACE Tempest Re, where she
served as vice president, underwriter, international department.
White graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
1993 with a BS in mechanical engineering. She is a keen and successful
sailor and represented Bermuda at the Olympics Games in 2004.
She serves on the boards of WeSpeak Bermuda, and YPO Bermuda
and chairs the board of Women in Reinsurance, Bermuda.
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She is an expert at bringing technology,
innovation, data and operations together to
help drive digital transformation.
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She served as managing director, head
of international property catastrophe
reinsurance for Alterra Bermuda.
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