Brett White

## Brett White, Bank of the Red

* **Name:**Brett Chad White
* **Position:**Business Analytics Assistant Manager, Fargo  Location, The Bank of the Red
* **Metatype:**Human  (*Homo sapiens sapiens*)
* **Education:**Masters of Business Administration, NDRU
* **DOB:**9/20/29, Fargo ND, USA (now Region 3, RRDMZ)
* **Family:**Chad White (father, *deceased*), Stacy [Larson] White (mother, Brainerd MN), Reid White (brother, Grand Forks, Region 2), Hadley [Thompson] White (sister-in-law, Grand Forks, Region 2), Sterling White (nephew, Grand Forks, Region 2), Jordon White (nephew, Grand Forks, Region 2), Rebecca 'Becky' White (sister, NDRU, Fargo, ND), Patricia 'Trixie' Johnson (ex-wife, Duluth MN), Sloane White (daughter, Duluth MN)

Brett White is a Fargo boy through and through. Born and educated in north Fargo (North High, class of '47), He began working in the back office at Bank of the Red while still in college, where he made important contacts with management, old hands like Harold Jenkins, manager of Retail Payment Solutions and Pat Ferrell, in sales and new accounts. Like his dad, a veteran of the Ghost Dance War, Brett paid for his education through the Army, and served a tour of duty in the UCAArmy from '51 to '53, and returned to use his contacts in the Bank to get his old job back and started climbing the corporate ladder (finishing his MBA in 2056). After slogging through middle management through the '50's, his star really began to rise in the 2060's, doing a stint as Executive Assistant to the Bank President J.T. Kappes that led to his appointment in 2063 as an executive Business Analyst in Fargo with plenty of room to rise.

The Second Crash and the subsequent New Revolution changed everything, causing the death or retirement of much the Bank's upper management, and stripping Brett of a lot of his vaunted contacts. Kappes retired in 2065 and was replaced by Marie LaClerc, an executive from Trinité  over in France, who went about doing a major restructuring to better take advantage of the Bank's good position after the Crash. A restructuring that left Brett isolated and stuck as the head of Business Analytics. A good job, sure, but no clear path up in the new structure. And that's where he's stayed for the last ten years.

Around 2069, Brett went to a business conference on 'Enterprise Architecture in the New Matrix' and he saw a way out and up. By 2070, he had talked Bank management into letting him set up the Enterprise Architecture Portfolio under Business Analytics, attracting a team of bright young bankers (including Todd Anderson and Daniel Tranh among others). The success of the EAP team was his key to the executive levels.

When several of his analysts were chosen for the Corporate Court audit this summer, Brett saw the door opening. This was his chance for real advancement. Except that's not how it ended up falling out. His own number two guy, Todd Anderson, did a little TOO good of a job and when their boss Jessica Schafer decided to expand the Enterprise Architecture Portfolio, she did so by setting up a second team under Todd, separate from Brett.

And leaving Brett pretty much stuck back where he always was.

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