PJ

Patrick J. Costello

Chief of Staff to CEO

San Francisco, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Education

  • Bachelor of Arts with Distinction

  • Washington DC, Summer

    Ballston LaunchPad

    (2013 - 2013)

  • Washington DC

    Kauffman FastTrac Tech Venture

    (2012 - 2012)

Work Experience

  • Chief of Staff to CEO

    2023

    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.

2022 - 2023

  • 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.

2019 - 2022

  • 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

2014 - 2019

  • 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.

2008 - 2014

  • 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

  • Development Associate (Internship)

    2007 - 2008

    Provided market analysis and geographic siting analysis during my senior year of college.