Daragh O Brien

Daragh is the Founder and Managing Director of Castlebridge, a leading Information Governance, Privacy, and Strategy consultancy based in Ireland. He has a degree in Business & Legal Studies from University College Dublin, and is a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society. Prior to founding Castlebridge, Daragh worked for over a decade for a leading Irish telecommunications company in roles as diverse as Call Centre operations, Single View of Customer Programme management, and Regulatory Compliance and Governance. He a regular presenter and trainer at conferences in the UK and worldwide. Apart from his consulting and education work, Daragh is also Data Privacy Officer for DAMA International, a faculty member at the Law Society of Ireland, and a contributing research partner to the Adapt Centre in Trinity College Dublin. He lives in Wexford in the South East of Ireland and can be reached at daragh@castlebridge.ie or on twitter: @daraghobrien. In 2016, he was ranked by Onalytica as the 24th most influential person on Twitter in Information Security (including Data Governance and Data Privacy).