DeRose is also director of the FinTech Initiative at the NYU Stern Fubon Center for Technology, Business and Innovation. Previously, she served as managing director and head of business strategy and solutions, investment strategy and research, for Credit Suisse. She is a director on the board of London Stock Exchange Group plc and Evolute AG. She also founded the Kathleen Traynor Research Fund at Princeton's Bendheim Center for Finance, which supports women's research in finance.