Albert White

Mr. White has thirty years of business and finance experience as an advisor to some of the most successful minority business CEOs in the country. With vast experience in healthcare, communications, energy, and digital technology, Mr. White is nationally known as a visionary in identifying market niches and trends. He is the author of “Race for the Net: When African Americans Controlled the Internet and What Happens Now?” in which Mr. White documents the untold story of the history of the Internet.            

Mr. White is an experienced executive having served as a senior consultant to Safeguard Scientific, a leading public venture-backed company; previously, he was an international banking officer with JP Morgan and Bankers Trust Company; and in January 2016, Mr. White formed a consulting service, Polaris Solutions Inc, to provide funding and marketing strategies for minority- and women-owned businesses.

Mr. White has been featured in the New York Times and Black Enterprise Magazine and has been a presenter at conferences hosted by Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the University of Tulsa, and other national conferences. In 2021, Mr. White was inducted into the Black Entrepreneurial Hall of Fame in Tulsa for the 100th Anniversary celebration of Black Wall Street. He has also been honored as one of the outstanding minority businesspeople in the Capital Region (Maryland, DC, and Virginia).

Mr. White received an MBA in Finance from Columbia Graduate School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in Marketing and Economics from the University of Denver. He is a former high school basketball legend from Brooklyn, New York and currently lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.