As technology continues to grow at a rapid rate, companies need liberal arts majors who understand that, when it comes to AI, the inputs matter, and how you apply the technology has a critical impact on people.
Join the Technology & Digital Studies Program and Beyond the Dome as we invite industry experts to discuss how they're leveraging AI in their business and what students need to know to have successful careers in these industries.
September 29: Melissa Summers
October 15: Kevin O'Brien
November 19: Jason Fournier
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Kevin O'Brien's Biography
Kevin O'Brien is an investor and board member at Lirio, a behavior change artificial intelligencebusiness focused on driving improved outcomes through AI-driven hyper-personalized wellnessand chronic condition management interventions; EmOpti, a founder-led telehealth businessfocused on workflow improvements in health systems; and Memorial MRI, a Texas-basedfreestanding imaging center and interventional pain business. He is also a board member of theSpecial Operations Fund, a 501(c)(3) dedicated to the families of JSOC’s special mission units,and an advisor to the U.S. Diplomatic Studies Foundation, a 501(c)(3) focused on supportingand enhancing the educational and training needs of U.S. government departments andorganizations through innovative programs.

In 2021 he retired from CCMP Capital Advisors, LP, a New York-based private equity firm where,over the previous 21 years, he was a managing director leading the healthcare practice and amember of its Investment Committee. O'Brien was deeply involved in, and served on theboards of CCMP investments including Eating Recovery Centers (behavioral treatment for mood and anxiety, eating and related disorders), CareMore Medical Enterprises (Medicare Advantagehealth plan), LHP Hospital Group (short-term acute care hospital company focused on JVs withlarger health systems), Medpace (contract research organization focused on human drug trialsprimarily for biotech companies), National Surgical Care (ambulatory surgery centers),Infogroup (marketing data services), and La Petite Academy (early childhood education).Prior to joining JP Morgan Partners in 2000, CCMP’s predecessor firm, O'Brien worked ininvestment banking in the high yield capital markets and banking groups at Chase Securities andChemical Securities. Prior to that, he was a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy where heserved as a surface warfare officer from 1988 to 1992. O'Brien holds a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and an M.B.A. from the WhartonSchool of the University of Pennsylvania.


Originally published at altech.nd.edu.