Hi. I’m Anthony O’Connell. I help companies attract, convert and grow customers using the web and AI. I founded and built ONE. I will be your teacher.

I’ve been working as a web designer, engineer, marketer, and educator for 30 years already. I began crafting the web after I graduated with a degree in marketing from Portobello College (Ireland) in 1994.

Here’s a few things I did first.

I setup Indigo, Ireland’s first internet marketing agency. I setup Ogilvy Interactive Research, Ireland’s first Internet research company. I developed the strategy to setup EuroMBA, Europe’s first online MBA program. I bought the first server that allowed secure transmission of credit cards over the internet. Before Netscape you couldn’t do secure transactions on the web. I was accepted into Instagram’s chat early access program (before this I was building chatbots with Messenger). I was one of the first users of GPT 3 (I got early access to their API), before this I was building AI applications with Google Dialogflow.

In 2009 I was asked to join the Education and Business Advisory Boards of the Lifeboat Foundation, a nonprofit nongovernmental organization. The Lifeboat Foundation is dedicated to ensuring that humanity safely adopts increasingly powerful technologies, including genetics/biotechnology, nanotechnology, and robotics/AI. I was really honoured to join other board members including inventor/futurist Ray Kurzweil, Director of Engineering at Google; Alex Wolszczan, discoverer of the first planets ever found outside our solar system; Ian Foster, “father of grid computing,” Frank Wilczek, winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics; and Sir Clive W.J. Granger, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics. I believe in freedom of speech, privacy, and open technology.

I have specialised in Internet strategy, marketing, ecommerce and education.

I built and managed and market ecommerce websites for companies like Gemcal (Thailand) Wonderfully Diamonds (UK), Mid-century Online (UK) and The Vintage Hub (Ireland).

I worked as an internet strategist for the EADA Business School (Spain), and TEFL (Ireland). I worked as a curriculum designer and teacher of animation at Saint Gabriel’s College (Thailand). I set up & managed marketing & research companies for Ogilvy (Ireland) and iMarketing (Australia). I developed strategies for companies in a diverse range of industries from smart drugs e.g. Prymd Labs (US) to consumer products e.g. Unilever (US), to media e.g. The Government of Thailand.

My career has brought me to the intersection of marketing, education, and artificial intelligence. I lead the research and development of ONE’s strategy, design, website, engineering, AI, marketing and education. My passion is for teaching - both kids and executives. My goal is to help you grow your skills and business with AI.