Sean O'Brien

Sean started his ships agency career in 1990 as a ships agent in Southampton with the well-established company ‘Wainwright Brothers’.

In 1995, Sean moved to OBC Shipping and was appointed manager in 1997. OBC were acquired by GAC in 2008 and Sean O’Brien remained in their employ until July 2014, when

an opportunity arose to join Cory Brothers Southampton as branch manager. In February 2018, Sean was promoted to ‘head of operations, UK’ in order to provide central operational management for the UK business. Latterly, the role was further expanded and Sean was appointed ‘director-operations’ with the additional responsibility of overseeing the Cory Brothers international offices.

In March 2020, Sean was appointed to ‘director of compliance’ with the added responsibility of leading all compliance, sanctions and ISO processes for the group.