Alan Young,Vice President, Emerging Technology Corporate Technology Office, Citigroup Alan Young is Vice President, Emerging Technology for Citigroup. The Emerging Technology unit was re-created in August 2004 as part of Citigroup’s Strategic Technology Plan. The unit is developing a process to identify and evaluate new technologies that could potentially provide Citigroup’s business units with opportunities to increase revenues, enhance competitiveness and/or reduce costs. Mr. Young is responsible for ensuring that Citigroup’s Global Technology Council (made up of the major business sectors’ CIOs) understands how these new technologies could help their businesses, and for identifying possible company wide efficiencies through the uniform deployment of these technologies. From September 2003 to August 2004, Mr. Young was head of Citigroup's Information Security Services group with responsibility for developing and managing the overall Information Security Program, including developing programs for training and awareness, risk assessment, security incident response management and providing subject matter expertise in information security regulatory and technology matters to the businesses. Prior to this, Mr. Young was the Vice President and Executive Director of Technology for e-Citi. In that capacity, Mr. Young managed the e-Citi team that also identified and evaluated new technologies on behalf of Citigroup. He and his team established common technology initiatives and standards across all Citigroup Internet businesses in an effort to maximize the flexibility of each unit while facilitating cross-selling and other transactions. He was also the architect of Citigroup’s remote electronic distribution strategy via mobile telephones, personal digital assistants, interactive television and other access devices. Mr. Young joined Citigroup in March 1998. Prior to joining Citigroup, Mr. Young worked for Viacom, where he was responsible for executing the media company’s worldwide satellite distribution strategy. He oversaw the implementation of several digital television distribution systems in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the United States. Earlier, Mr. Young worked as a Technical Manager for MTV Europe and was responsible for developing MTV Europe's satellite distribution strategy. Mr. Young negotiated several satellite capacity contracts and in 1994 specified and implemented MTV Europe's first digital compression system based upon the emerging DVB standard. Mr. Young began his career as a technical manager at British Telecom. He graduated from the University of York with a Master's Degree in Engineering and is a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. Contact Us Home