Bio trish costello

Trish Costello serves as Advisor and Founding CEO of the Center for Venture Education, a prestigious twenty-four month educational fellowship in the venture capital industry.

Prior to leading this effort, Costello spent eight years as an associate of the Kauffman Foundation, directing the Center’s venture capital programs and high potential women’s initiatives. In addition to her work in venture capital, she has been a leader in efforts to obtain greater financial equity investments in women’s businesses and to obtain seed funds for non-profits across the country focused on women entrepreneurs, including the Diana Project and Springboard Enterprises.

Costello’s professional background includes corporate, non-profit and entrepreneurial experience. At AT&T, she developed small business products and marketing strategies for the initial divestiture of the Bell System. As executive vice president of Child Health Corporation of America, Costello assisted with the launch of medical venture companies for an investor group of twenty prominent children’s hospitals and operated the Children’s Health Network, a satellite-based medical education system. Costello spent two years as the Executive Director of Rose Brooks Center, a 30-bed residential facility for battered women and their children. She co-founded a profitable family-owned business and has consulted in the fields of health care, communications technology, and software marketing and distribution.

Costello serves or has served on the Boards of Directors of The Enterprise Center, the Kansas Women’s Business Center, the Kelce School of Business, Springboard Enterprises, the Helzberg Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program, and the Corinth educational Foundation. She writes and speaks internationally on venture capital, angel investing, mentoring, and growth strategies for women entrepreneurs. Her free time is centered on 14-year old twin daughters.———–