Derek is an accomplished business executive with a successful 15-year track record working in financial services in senior COO/Business Management roles at Top 10 investment banks.He has broad product and international experience built from supporting Private Market, Equity, and Prime Services businesses, Tech and Ops functions, as well as having worked in New York, Europe, and Asia.Derek has a history of managerial leadership, developing high-functioning teams and internal partnerships, and creating value through data-driven strategic planning, executive agenda coordination, business/product development, and financial/performance/human capital management.Derek is currently the Chief Strategy and Product Officer at ClearList, a fintech startup building a broker-dealer platform that helps private companies better address their equity, capital and liquidity needs as well as facilitate the secondary trading of private company securities. Prior to this, Derek was the Global COO for Equities at Barclays, where he oversaw the Equities business management team and worked to improve the profitability of the franchise evidenced by then 3-year revenue growth of 33% cost reductions of 10%, and an improved external rank from 8th to 6th (source: Coalition).