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Keith O'brien

CEO at Spring.me

BIO

Keith is currently leading Blackpurl, an innovative and disruptive SaaS business built on Salesforce.com. Prior to being appointed to this position, Keith successfully led the social media start-up www.spring.me through a rebrand, redevelopment, and relaunch before selling the network to one of Europe's leading media and internet companies. Keith has over 20 years of strategic product development, management, and marketing expertise. A demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and projects using agile methodologies embracing a lean start-up philosophy. He has a strong customer and stakeholder empathy and always focuses on representing the voice of the customer. He is excited by the challenges of leading cross-functional teams with end-to-end oversight for their products. He is autonomous, entrepreneurial, and he thrives in a fast-paced environment where continuous improvement is the norm and the bar for quality is extremely high.