Dean O’Brien

Dean O’Brien was appointed Deputy Director of the Health Facility Loan Insurance team at the Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) in March 2025.

Mr. O’Brien joined the Department as a Health Facility Construction Financing Analyst in 2011, promoting to a financing specialist in 2014 and financing officer in 2019.

Prior to joining the HCAI executive team, Mr. O’Brien spent more than 20 years in the real estate development and commercial lending industry. His previous experience included being a commercial loan underwriter and financial analyst with Weyerhaeuser Real Estate Company, where he led a team that originated a $200 million portfolio of residential and mixed-use real estate projects in northern and central California and Nevada. 

Mr. O’Brien holds an undergraduate degree in business finance and real estate land use from California State University, Sacramento, and a Master of Business Administration from Drexel University.