Daragh O Brien
Vice President Publicity and Recruitment
Daragh O Brien is the Taoiseach (Chief Executive) of Castlebridge Associates, an Information Quality Consulting and Mentoring practice based in Wexford, Ireland. Prior to establishing Castlebridge Associates, Daragh spent 12 years with a large Telecommunications company in a variety of challenging Information Quality related roles ranging from CRM implementations (including Single View of Customer), to the delivery and management of Compliance and Governance functions.
He is a Charter Member of the IAIDQ, a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society, and has served on the IAIDQ’s Board of Directors since 2005. He is a frequent speaker at conferences worldwide, and has written countless articles on Information Quality topics, as well as maintaining his personal blog (obriend.info) and the IAIDQ’s IQTrainwrecks blog (iqtrainwrecks.com). Daragh has also devised course modules in Information Quality and related disciplines for FETAC (Fetac.ie) and Dublin City University (DCU.ie).
He holds a Bachelor degree in Business and Legal Studies from the National University of Ireland (Dublin).
Daragh's hobbies, outside of the IQ world, include blues guitar playing and martial arts. He lives in Wexford.
