Julian Simmonds joined Citibank in 1972 and spent several years in Consumer Finance and Financial Control before moving to Foreign Exchange in 1977. He has traded most of the major currencies and was appointed chief dealer in 1984 and head of trading in 1988. He took on responsibility for sales in 1990 and further expanded this role to include FX options. In 1992 he was promoted to Managing Director for European FX and Treasury activities. This included responsibility for the liquidity and balance sheet of Citibank in Europe. In 1994 he took on the additional responsibility of becoming Chairman of Citibank's Global Foreign Exchange Committee. In April 1996, Julian also took on the responsibility for the Derivatives and Warrants business and in 1997, prior to its transfer to Salomon Smith Barney, the Fixed Income business. Also in 1998, Julian was made Global Head of Citibank's Corporate Finance businesses. He retired in August 2001. At that time Julian was an Executive Vice President at Citibank NA and had business responsibility for Citibank's Trading, Sales and Corporate Finance activities for the OECD world.

Julian has various directorships as well as being a Trustee of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and is involved with the Royal College of Music in bringing talented Russian musicians to study in London.