Adrian Gribbin

Global COO & CFO - Culture Kings

Greater Sydney Area

About

People presume it's difficult explaining how you enjoy working in the CFO space - I never find it hard! Understanding the drivers of a business and looking to create and enhance income streams and doing that with great people. Building data based decision making. Exploring the "don't know I don't know" space. Scaling up (and down). Combining companies. What could be better - ok winning an Olympic medal yes - but it's a still pretty damn good space to work in! However when you think back to those moments when everything worked perfectly - the role or project that gave the most satisfaction and what it was that drove this - the answer is consistently the same. The people. It is always the values, the culture and the efforts the entire business makes to live those values in every interaction, every day.

Experience

  • Culture Kings (Hybrid)
    • Global Chief Operating Officer & CFO
      Feb 2023 - Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos

    • Chief Financial Officer
      May 2022 - Sep 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos

      WORLD FAMOUS FOR STREETWEAR Culture Kings is renowned as Australia’s leading online retailer of streetwear, offering its customer a curated range of brands and products that embody the relationship between music, sport, art and fashion.

  • Chief Operating Officer at sass & bide, Marcs, David Lawrence
    Apr 2019 - May 2022 · 3 yrs 2 mos

    COO & CFO for 3 Australian brands with over 200 stores throughout AU & NZ. Lead - Supply chain, Finance, IT, HR, E-commerce, Production, Property.

  • Chief Financial Officer at colette by colette hayman
    Mar 2018 - Apr 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

    Fashion accessory retail chain spanning 4 countries (Australia, New Zealand, UK, RSA) and 160 stores. Responsible for finance, logistics, supply chain, BI. Private equity backed.

  • CFO & Co Sec' at APG & Co Pty Ltd
    Oct 2014 - Mar 2018 · 3 yrs 6 mos

    APG&Co Ltd own four premier Australian fashion brands: Sportscraft, Saba, Willow & Jag. Full commercial & strategic responsibilities in addition to ownership of digital, e-commerce and insights teams.

  • CFO at THE ICONIC
    Dec 2013 - Aug 2014 · 9 mos

    Head of finance and business intelligence for Australia's leading online fashion business.