Meet the finance players who made Fortune’s 40 under 40 list this year
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Finance is said to be a young person’s game, and the bankers, financiers, and founders on this year’s Fortune 40 under 40 list prove just that.
This year's version of the annual list was led by the recently elected French president Emmanuel Macron, a former Rothschild banker.
The other young professionals run the gamut from traditional bankers investing in algorithmic stock-picking programs, to visionaries developing new cryptocurrencies, and everything in between.
Scroll down to meet the next generation of banking and finance leaders:
Vital Buterin, Ethereum
This 23-year-old Russian-born boy genius is credited with inventing the worlds second-largest cryptocurrency behind bitcoin. The network can also handle “smart contracts,” something its rivals can’t do.
Business Insider has an explainer on what ethereum is, and how it’s different from bitcoin, here.
Brian Armstrong, Coinbase
Armstrong is the 34-year-old CEO of Coinbase, an app that lets users store their bitcoin, etherum and other cryptocurrencies online. As cryptocurrencies’ value skyrocketed over the last year, Coinbase's popularity surged.
In August, Coinbase raised $100 million at a $1.6 billion valuation, making it the first cryptocurrency unicorn.
Geraldine Buckingham, BlackRock
Formerly an ER surgeon, 39-year-old Buckingham is the youngest executive at the world’s largest money manager that reports directly to founder and CEO Larry Fink.
Buckingham joined BlackRock in 2014. Under her watch as global head of corporate strategy, BlackRock has continued to emphasize algorithms and robot traders over human stock pickers.
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