John joined Allstate in January 2016 as Managing Director responsible for more than 2,300 employees based in Allstate three locations in Belfast, L’Derry and Strabane.
John joins Allstate from CITI where he served as Head of their Belfast Service Center providing IT, operations, human resources, legal, finance and risk services to the broader Citi group as one of 27 global delivery centres. Before serving in this position, John held senior management roles as head of technology and as a business unit manager for CITI. John also has extensive experience in leading teams to set strategic goals and deliver practical solutions to address business and technology issues. These capabilities were built over many years working in senior leadership roles at Grafton Recruitment, Liberty IT, J P Morgan Chase, St George Bank Treasury and Merrill Lynch.
John has developed strong relationships with the local Universities and Invest NI and serves in a variety of industry, university and community settings including the board of the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and the Professional Advisory Board, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen’s University Belfast to name but a few. John earned his bachelors and masters degrees in Engineering and Computer Science from Queen’s University Belfast.