Summary
Paul O'brien is a seasoned technology executive with 15+ years leading product, engineering and innovation teams, now serving as Group Chief AI Officer and CTO for Global Solutions at Davies. He blends hands-on engineering roots—from early desktop and .NET development to founding MoDaCo—with strategic leadership driving AI adoption and technology strategy across insurance, consulting and technology divisions. Paul has a track record of turning emerging technologies into operational advantage, having overseen customer insight platforms like ServiceTick and been instrumental in IoT-style initiatives such as Pay As You Drive. Based in Diss, England, he champions practical, organisation-wide AI integration rather than siloed pilots, ensuring tools and governance scale with capability. Colleagues describe him as an operator who pairs entrepreneurial curiosity with disciplined delivery across complex, regulated environments.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Guerilla .net, Guerilla .net at Developmentor
The Holy Trinity School, Crawley
Computing and Information Systems, Computing and Information Systems at University of Brighton
English