Patrick J. Costello
Chief of Staff to CEO of Checkr
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Chief of Staff to CEO
2023 - Current
Checkr is the #1 background check company in the U.S. I report to the CEO and work alongside the C-Suite, to make the CEO, executive team, and the company more productive and successful.
Checkr is a software company that automates and speeds up the process of professional background checks.
Raised $678,999,991.00 from Irving Investors.
Chief Product Officer
2022 - 2023
Lofty makes it easy for anyone in the world to buy and sell fractions of rental properties in minutes. We democratize real estate investment using blockchain technology, bridging Web2 & Web3. Led Product, Design, Engineering, Growth Marketing & Customer Success teams.
Lofty lets you invest in tokenized rental properties for only $50 and sell any time
Raised $5,000,000.00 from Orange DAO, TRAC and Rohan Udeshi.
Senior Director, Product Management
2020 - 2022
Optimizely is a digital experience platform for content, commerce, & operations. Owned integration of 5 product orgs across 3-company acquisitions to create 1 unified product suite. Led product strategy for a team of dozens of Product Managers & Engineers.
Senior Product Manager
2019 - 2020
Optimizely is a digital experience platform for unlocking digital potential, content, commerce, and optimization.
Raised $251,200,000.00 from Bridge Bank.
Co-founder, Chief Strategy Officer
2014 - 2019
Naytev is a digital experimentation and growth optimization platform loved by teams from VRBO to VICE and Sunrun. I led product, sales and customer success. Managed team of 10 across Product, Ops, Sales, Finance, Customer Success & Engineering to reach $1.5M ARR, then joined Optimizely to continue the experimentation mission at a larger scale.
Naytev is based in San Francisco, and optimizes your content to drive more revenue.
Raised $1,300,000.00 from Palm Drive Capital.
Senior Associate, Energy Advisory & Solutions
2012 - 2014
I led ICF's private sector management consulting service focused on renewable energy markets, identifying investment risks and opportunities under many scenarios for developers, utilities, and investment banks. I also architected ICF's solar PV analytics suite — the first in the industry to automate solar prospecting using hundreds of millions of technical, economic, and demographic data points. In my first few years at ICF I specialized in market modeling using Fortran (yes, from the 1950's) and .Net runtime environments.
Founder of ICF's Innovator's Forum
2013 - 2013
Designed an led an internal organization that empowered and spurred intrapreneurial development.
Associate
2011 - 2012
Analyst
2010 - 2011
Researcher
2008 - 2010
IT Consultancy
Development Associate (Internship)
2007 - 2008
Provided market analysis and geographic siting analysis during my senior year of college.