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Sean Glennan

  • Chief Financial Officer, HUT since 2024-08src

Ex-Citi power and utilities banker; Hut 8 CFO since August 2024

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Scouting sheet

as of 24 Sep 2026
Delivers guidance—no promises on the record yet
Answers the question—no call reviewed yet
Capital allocation—company not reviewed yet
Pay design20ebitda, margin, strategic, individual, time only · 54.8% for · company lost money
Skin in the game—no holding or price on file
Age
43src
In the role
2 yr
Promises scored
0
Hit rate
—
Dodges / 100 answers
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Airtime on calls
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Every promise, oldest firstno scored promises yet

What to weigh

Red flag 1

  • The executive pay package he is part of drew 45% of for-and-against votes against at the 2026 say-on-paysrc

Watch 4

  • Small stake: 12,068 shares (about 0.01%) at 2026-04-13 and 17,978 after the August 2026 vest. His equity is mostly unvested RSUs and PSUssrc
  • First CFO or public-company operating role; he came from sell-side banking, not a finance-chief seatsrc
  • His April 2025 PSUs were modified two months after grant to match the CEO's June 2025 design (0-300% payout on MW commercialised, adjusted EBITDA and the ABTC carve-out)src
  • The 2025 bonus paid 200% of target, on the same legs as the CEO's, two of them subjectivesrc

Career

  1. 2024 – now
    Hut 8 Corp.src
    Chief Financial Officer
    Joined 2024-08-21 from outside the company and outside the sector
  2. 2021 – 2024
    Citigroup Global Markets, Investment Bankingsrc
    Managing Director, Global Power, Utilities & Renewables
    The proxy says MD since August 2021; the 2024 8-K says December 2021
  3. 2011 – 2021
    Citigroup Global Markets, Investment Bankingsrc
    Various roles, Global Power, Utilities & Renewables group
    At Citigroup from August 2011; the proxy counts 13 years there and over $80bn of power-sector M&A and capital-markets work

Not located: Before August 2011 not dated in any source: one search result names an early job at Asia International in Nanjing and consulting at Orion Consultants in New York, then the Virginia MBA; the release says his financial-services career is nearly 20 years long

Achievements

  • Thirteen years in Citigroup's power, utilities and renewables banking group, ending as Managing Director, with over $80bn of power-sector M&A and capital-markets dealssrc
  • Hired in August 2024 to finance the power-first strategy. His CEO cited M&A structuring in power and utilities and his relationships in the spacesrc
  • In the first half of 2026 Hut 8 raised $7.7bn gross from senior secured notes and a term loan, including the $4.25bn Beacon Point Notes, for its data-centre buildsrc
  • The proxy credits the 2025 team with about $1.4bn of cash and bitcoin in reserve at year end, $400m of revolving credit, a $1.0bn ATM and up to 85% loan-to-cost project financing for River Bendsrc

Education

  • University of Notre Dame, BAsrc
  • University of Virginia (Darden School of Business), MBAsrc

Background

  • Family The appointment 8-K states he has no family relationship with any director or executive officer and no Item 404(a) transaction with the companysrc
  • Other Employment agreement dated 2024-07-25: severance of 12 months' salary, target bonus and COBRA on a termination without cause or a good-reason resignation, and a 12-month non-compete and non-solicitsrc
  • Other Before Citigroup, per a conference biography: began his career with Asia International in Nanjing, China, then did management consulting for bulge-bracket banks in New York at Orion Consultants (no dates given)src
  • Other At Citigroup he held roles in the firm's recruitment and training programs, per the company's releasesrc

The promise ledger

No promise on the record yet: the research routine has not scored this company's guidance.

Sources

10
  1. Filing Hut 8 Corp. DEF 14A for the 2026-06-11 annual meeting (accession 0001104659-26-049711) · 2026-04-28
  2. Filing Hut 8 Corp. 8-K Item 5.07, 2026 annual meeting results (0001104659-26-073505) · 2026-06-12
  3. Filing Hut 8 Corp. 8-K Item 5.02, Glennan appointed CFO, Visram departure (0001558370-24-010940) · 2024-08-06
  4. Filing Hut 8 Corp. press release 'Hut 8 Announces New Chief Financial Officer', Exhibit 99.1 to the 2024-08-06 8-K · 2024-08-06
  5. Filing Hut 8 Corp. 10-Q for the quarter ended 2026-06-30 (0001104659-26-090025) · 2026-08-04
  6. Filing SEC XBRL companyconcept us-gaap/NetIncomeLoss, CIK 1964789 (FY2025 10-K, 0001104659-26-019392) · 2026-02-25
  7. Filing Form 4, Sean Joseph Glennan (reporting CIK 2033280), RSU vest 2026-03-07 and sell-to-cover 2026-03-10 (0001964789-26-000007) · 2026-03-10
  8. Filing Form 4, Sean Joseph Glennan, RSU grant of 2026-06-11 (0001964789-26-000016) · 2026-06-15
  9. Filing Form 4, Sean Joseph Glennan, RSU vest 2026-08-21 and sell-to-cover 2026-08-24 (0001964789-26-000038) · 2026-08-25
  10. Web search result WebSearch: conference speaker biography of Sean Glennan, CFO at Hut 8 (early career at Asia International, Nanjing, and Orion Consultants; Darden MBA) · 2026-09-24