Daniel O'Sullivan is a Director, Analyst within Gartner's global Customer Service and Support research group. Dan supports Customer Experience and Service leaders in the areas of CX, service and support with a particular focus on how data and analytics can be developed to measure and improve customer service and experience strategy.
Dan has close to a decade's worth of experience leading Customer Experience and Service teams within organizations of all sizes.
In 2016 Dan founded his own AI fintech start-up Brevis, developing the product and growing their customer base before selling the business to MindBridge Analytics in 2019.
At MindBridge Dan worked as a Director of Customer Experience, developing their Customer Success strategy in Europe and Australia before taking over to lead their service and knowledge teams working alongside big four clients to deploy global service and support operations.
AI has been central throughout Dan's career, from early work establishing order automation best practices at Philips, to developing his own AI platform at his company Brevis, to eventually leading the support team at MindBridge, the worlds first AI audit platform. At MindBridge Dan led their data governance and business intelligence groups, developing a team of analysts focused on using customer data to improve service strategy and performance. In particular how data, analytics and AI can be utilized to identify and measure customer journeys and behavior leading to the development of proactive service and success strategies and better multi-channel customer experiences.
In addition to his experience with data and analytics, Dan has a strong passion for customer education and knowledge - with a focus on how to improve service and reduce cost through the deployment of high quality self-service educational resources.
Prior to starting his own business Dan began his career working as a Supply Chain analyst at Philips, before going on to lead their UK and Ireland Customer Service teams.
MindBridge Analytics, Director, Customer Experience, 3 years
Brevis, Co-Founder, 3 years
Philips, Customer Service, Manager, 7 years
Service and Support Customer Experience
Service and Support AI
M.A., History, University of Southampton
B.A., History, University of Southampton
How do I lead an AI strategy in service and support that delivers real measurable ROI for the business?
What the top emerging trends in generative and agentic AI for customer service and support?
How do I mature my customer analytics strategy?
What key operational metrics should I be measuring (self-service, success, support)?
How do I develop a customer education and knowledge strategy that will improve self-service engagement and reduce costs?