Michael Obrien Email Address

Vice President Operations

Appirio is an IT technology company providing mobile, social, crowdsourcing and cloud technology services.

A leader, honest to a fault and crazy organized. These are some of the core characteristics that I would hope my friends and colleagues would use to describe me. My personality and these traits were forged at an early age having attended the US Naval Academy, earning a BS in Computer Science and serving on three ballistic missile submarines while becoming certified as a naval nuclear engineer supervising all ship-wide and nuclear power plant operations. I loved the Navy but I realized early on that long sea tours with almost no outside communication would be a challenging way to raise a family. So we made the tough decision to leave the Navy and enter the private sector where I started my career as a consultant. Being a technology consultant, working with enterprise customers, and leading teams was my true calling. I have been lucky to work with amazing people and great customers across several tech companies to include WaveFront Consulting, webMethods and Borland. Fast forward to 2006 and I helped co-found a company called Appirio - we were one of the earliest consultancies that helped usher in the cloud era while driving the implementations at Fortune 1000 companies for the leading cloud vendors - Salesforce, Workday, Google and Amazon. Although it was the job of a lifetime and we could have run forever, we were acquired by Wipro in 2016. Since then, I’ve been enjoying life with more travel, a lot more physical activity and time with the family. I’ve also found a new passion working for LookDeep. I’m excited to continue learning, to continue growing and to be part of this team that will help revolutionize the healthcare industry with the incredible potential of AI.