Kathleen Traynor DeRose is an American fintech expert and a finance professor.

She serves as a non-executive director on the boards of the London Stock Exchange Group plc.,[3] Enfusion, Experian, and Voya Financial,[4] and served as a non-executive director 2015-2020 and as the board chair 2015-2017 of Evolute AG.

She spent over thirty years in the asset and wealth management industries, as a portfolio manager of institutional, ultra-high net worth, and 1940 Act mutual funds, and ultimately in global senior leadership roles.

DeRose earned her MSc., with distinction, from the University of Oxford where her thesis, "Wagering on Welfare; Explaining Provincial Variation in the Chinese Welfare Lottery," earned the Henry Ko prize.

[6] She has an MBA from the TRIUM program, a joint degree program from the New York University Stern School of Business, the London School of Economics, and the Haute Ecole Commerciale (HEC).