Sean Bowen

I build the infrastructure that enables institutional-grade clearing at scale across traditional and digital asset markets, from global banks to early-stage startups.

I've spent my career at the intersection of established financial infrastructure meets what's being built next. I came up through FX prime brokerage and OTC clearing at major global institutions, then joined Hidden Road as Employee #4 to help build a multi-asset clearing platform from the ground up. That experience has given me the ability to bridge the needs of large institutions with the pace of high growth companies. The combination of knowing how established firms operate and how to build from nothing is where I add the most value

At Hidden Road, I had end-to-end ownership of the FX Prime Brokerage product and built the global operations function from scratch — a 24/7 cross-product organization covering FX, digital assets, swaps, ETD, and fixed income. We scaled from a small founding team to a platform supporting institutional clients across multiple asset classes before being acquired by Ripple for $1.25B.

Prior to Hidden Road, I came up through global institutions ( BNP Paribas, UBS, AIG Financial Products) in FX prime brokerage, OTC clearing, and collateral management roles. Those years spanning multiple market dislocations across both traditional and digital asset markets shaped how I think about building processes and teams that hold up when things get hard.

I’m most energized by roles at the intersection of product strategy, operations, and team building, where success depends not only on defining the product vision, but also on building the organization and infrastructure required to scale it