2015 Tech 50: Deborah Hopkins

孵化器，加速器，研发实验室，战略风险资金 - 这些都是新技术在途中进行市场验收。为了获得最新的新事物，为最新的新事物获得洞察力并为最新的新事物做好准备，但越来越多的金融机构已经吸收了其中一个或另一个活动。花旗集团对他们所有。他们是Citi Ventures的任务的一部分，帕洛阿尔托，基于加利福尼亚的单位黛博拉·霍普金斯，谁也是纽约母公司的首席创新官。“我们是一支大约两打的小组，”她说，“支持一家非常大的公司”，在资产1.9万亿美元，在160多个国家开展业务，雇用约240,000。CITI Ventures是一种自我称为“创新引擎”，旨在证明一个大型行业现任者可以克服官僚机构和惯性，在世界变化时茁壮成长，以霍普金斯称之为“指数速度”。花旗企业’ marquee is a venture capital portfolio that made its first investment in 2011, profited from two exits (fraud detection start-up Silver Tail Systems, acquired by EMC Corp. in 2012, and mobile commerce company Shopkick, bought by South Korea’s SK Planet in 2014) and currently holds New Age investment adviser Betterment and payment processor Square, among others. The objective is “bigger than ROI,” says Hopkins, 60, formerly CFO of Boeing Co. and Lucent Technologies and chief operations and technology officer of Citi, who set up shop in Silicon Valley in 2010. Over the past two years, her group has linked Citi’s technology labs around the world into a better-coordinated network, launched a fintech accelerator in Israel and another, multiregional one in partnership with Sunnyvale, California–based Plug and Play Tech Center. “We have to be unencumbered by apparent constraints and think like a start-up, in the boldest way possible, about solving customer problems,” she adds.

看到完整的故事，“2015年技术50：赛车手到边缘。“