Michele Casertano

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States13 yrs 1 mo experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Built new business line generating significant revenue.
  • Led product due diligence doubling revenue in record time.
  • Closed early sales growing startup to $3.5M run rate.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS executive with strong leadership and product management expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business StrategyLeadershipBusiness DevelopmentProject ManagementEntrepreneurship

Other Skills

Strategic PlanningSupply Chain ManagementManagement ConsultingMicrosoft OfficeStart-ups

Experience

13 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
2 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 7 mos
Current Experience

Checkr, inc.

Vice President / GM

Sep 2024Present · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Built and scaled new business line from $0 to $XXM in revenue while maintaining profitability
  • Expanded Checkr's total addressable market by $20B with new offerings in insurance, property technology, and online marketplaces
  • Led cross-functional team spanning product, engineering, and sales from inception to market
  • Drove $XM in gross margin improvements through vendor migration and sunsetting of legacy acquired platforms
  • Navigated complex regulatory landscape including FCRA, state clean slate laws, and insurance underwriting compliance
Business StrategyStrategic PlanningProject ManagementSupply Chain ManagementEntrepreneurshipBusiness Development+2

Verkada

4 roles

Senior Director of Product

Promoted

May 2024Jul 2024 · 2 mos

  • Manage a team of product managers and product specialists.Manage team of 10 responsible for XXXk+ IoT security cameras and $XXXM P&L (XX% YoY growth).
  • Oversee product roadmap for both hardware and software including: camera hardware, firmware, on-board storage, streaming, Web and Mobile platforms, computer vision.
  • Launched over 20 IoT camera models and hundreds of software features in collaboration with design, engineering, marketing.
  • Developed novel AI investigation feature used for the classification of footage.
  • Introduced Verkada Verify, a complimentary tool enabling users to authenticate the integrity of Verkada video content against Generative AI and other editing tools.
  • Work with the legal team to ensure compliance of our CV features in the market.
  • Collaborate with SalesOps to train X,XXX sales reps on new camera models and product features.
  • Closed US ($XXM+) and EMEA ($XXM) company largest accounts in collaboration with the sales team.
  • Granted provisional patent for novel computer vision search application: “Systems and methods for trajectory-based object search using edge computing”

Director of Product

Promoted

Apr 2022May 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Product Lead - Cameras and AI

Dec 2021Apr 2022 · 4 mos

Product Manager - Cameras and AI

Jan 2021Dec 2021 · 11 mos

Fourkites, inc.

Director Of Product

Jan 2020Jan 2021 · 1 yr · Chicago, Illinois

  • Led product due diligence for FourKites' first ever acquisition. Revenue doubled in less than 7 months.
  • Oversaw roadmap prioritization impacting work of 30+ engineers for large product portfolio (B2B and B2C SaaS products).
  • Managed launch of rapidly growing B2C Appointment Manager product. First ever B2C first product to be ever released by the company.
  • Collaborated with sales in closing largest deal of the company

Boston consulting group (bcg)

2 roles

Project Leader

Promoted

Apr 2018Dec 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Led market research, and prioritized product roadmap for large entertainment company based out of Las Vegas. Identified opportunities representing potential increase in revenue of $1.8B by 2025.
  • Acted as product manager for a B2B contract management web-based platform developed for leading trucking company. Product generated $20M+ of revenue for BCG, as part of profit improvement share agreement with client
  • Led team creating first subscription offering for top B2B routing company. Effort required to revise product positioning, pricing, go-to-market strategy, and technology stack

Consultant

Apr 2016Mar 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Conducted user, and market research to revamp product strategy and positioning for a leading Web CMS software company. Projected revenue increase of 8%
  • Product manager for the development of first Web/Mobile app to be sold by a BCG consulting team. Conducted user research to define product requirements. Worked with design team to define UI, and UX. Prioritized feature development, and product roadmap. Product generating $40M+ YRR for BCG
  • Launched product pricing optimization program for a leading B2B tech client, increasing client’s operating margins by 10%

Bluecrew

CEO and Co-Founder (acquired by IAC)

Aug 2014Feb 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Closed early sales, growing the business from $0 to $3.5M of yearly run rate in 9 months
  • Prioritized market segments for the platform, and aligned product GTM with product capabilities
  • Responsible for the financing strategy. Raised $2.7M from some of the top investors in Silicon Valley. Among others: SV Angels, Founders Club, Andy Rachleff, Paul Buchheit, Ashton Kutcher

Procter & gamble

3 roles

EMEA External Manufacturing Project Manager

Promoted

Mar 2012Jun 2013 · 1 yr 3 mos · Brussels Metropolitan Area

  • Led a 30 person multifunctional team towards the qualification of a Dutch site for the production of a completely newly designed product for the EMEA & AIIK market, generating $9M of extra revenues

EMEA External Manufacturing Initiatives Start-Up Leader

Sep 2011Feb 2012 · 5 mos · Brussels Metropolitan Area

  • Reduced the cost of production of a major P&G brand by 15%

Engineering Project Manager

Jan 2011Jun 2011 · 5 mos · Crailsheim, Germany

  • Designed a new robotic packaging line for billion-dollar brand (Always). Used new low cost production technologies, leading to 60% production savings on key mechanical components

Education

Stanford University

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Jan 2013Jan 2015

University of Rome Tor Vergata

MS — Mechanical Engineering

Jan 2009Jan 2011

University of Rome Tor Vergata

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) — Mechanical Engineering

Jan 2005Jan 2009

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