Owen Gribbin
SVP Global Futures Production Support @Citi
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WORK HISTORY
SVP Global Futures Production Support @Citi
Belfast, GB
I lead global support for Exchange-Traded Derivatives (ETD) and OTC clearing platforms, ensuring operational resilience, platform stability, and client confidence across mission-critical trading environments.I operate at the intersection of technology and markets, partnering closely with front-office, risk, infrastructure, vendors, and regulators to ensure platforms scale with business demand and regulatory expectations.Key impact and leadership highlights: • Rebuilt the global leadership team since 2022, combining internal talent development with targeted external hiring to strengthen capability, accountability, and succession. • Developed and promoted 21 team members over the past three years, embedding a culture of performance, mentorship, and long-term talent pipeline development. • Secured investment through three strategic business cases, enabling expansion into additional mission-critical applications and increased platform coverage. • Strengthened platform stability, resilience, and observability, delivering measurable improvements in incident management, service reliability, and operational transparency. • Aligned technology delivery with business priorities through close partnership with senior stakeholders across trading, risk, operations, and technology.
EDUCATION
Queen's University Belfast
BSC, Finance
Saint Patrick's college Maghera
A Level, Maths
ABOUT OWEN GRIBBIN
I lead global Futures & Options application support for mission-critical trading platforms in high-volume, high-risk financial markets. Over the past decade, I’ve built and scaled high-performing teams that ensure stability, resilience, and continuous improvement across complex trading environments where performance, reliability, and time-to-resolution directly impact business outcomes.I’m a people-first leader who believes strong technology organisations are built through talent development and accountability. In the last three years alone, 21 members of my teams have progressed into promoted roles — a reflection of a culture focused on growth, ownership, and excellence.My leadership style sits at the intersection of technology, strategy, and execution. I specialise in translating complex technical challenges into pragmatic solutions that strengthen operational resilience, reduce risk, and enable business growth.Key areas of focus: • Building and scaling global teams in high-pressure trading environments • Aligning IT delivery with front-office and business priorities • Driving automation, process optimisation, and incident reduction • Strengthening platform resilience and service reliability at scale • Turning complex technical problems into measurable business outcomesI’m motivated by creating environments where people perform at their best and technology enables—not constrains—business ambition.
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