After graduating from Duke University in 1965, White joined Goldman Sachs & Co, entering a small executive trainee class that included future Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and future leveraged-buyout manager Henry Kravis.
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At the start of his career, he joined the German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd, Hamburg as Executive Trainee for two and a half years, after which he was assigned to the liner operations Australia / New Zealand as Assistant Marketing Manager.
