The HireRight management team is an assembly of innovative, seasoned professionals. Its leaders have represented many of the largest and most well-respected businesses in the world.
Michael A. Petrullo - HireRight President and CEO
Michael Petrullo is President and CEO of HireRight, the commercial employment screening business of USIS that serves more than 28,000 commercial customers in the U.S. and overseas, including more than 20 percent of the Fortune 500.
Michael A. Petrullo is President and CEO of HireRight. Mr. Petrullo assumed the role of President and CEO of HireRight in September 2009. He joined the Altegrity group of companies in March 2009, initially serving as a senior vice president on the Altegrity corporate leadership team, focusing on organic and inorganic growth initiatives. He is a seasoned finance and operations executive with significant M&A and restructuring experience and an outstanding track record of leadership and accomplishment driving organizational change and development.
Prior to Altegrity, Mr. Petrullo served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC). There, he helped design a new business model and led restructuring efforts in 2005 that resulted in $650 million of annual cost savings for the company. He developed the strategy for MMC’s Operational Excellence Program, which resulted in $350 million of annual cost savings from leveraging best practices companywide in the infrastructure and administrative functions. He served on MMC’s executive committee and was the chairman of its operating committee.
Prior to that position, he served as chief financial officer for Marsh-Kroll Risk Consulting. During this period, Mr. Petrullo was responsible for several successful acquisition and merger transition efforts, including the successful integration of Kroll, Inc. with MMC and the combination of Marsh’s Risk Consulting business into Kroll’s operations.
Mr. Petrullo was Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Kroll from May 2002 to July 2004, where he restructured the management of the operating units from a regional-based management system to a product line system. He was the chairman of the operations committee and a member of both the executive and expansion committees. Prior to that, he held positions of increasing responsibility with the company, beginning with his arrival at Kroll Associates in 1995 as Assistant Controller. From 1990 to 1995, he served as a member of the audit and assurance practice and forensic accounting practice of KPMG, Peat Marwick, LLP.
Mr. Petrullo earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration at Pace University in New York.
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Mark Mayo - Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Mark Mayo is CFO of HireRight and oversees the company’s global financial, accounting and procurement organizations. Mayo originally joined the company in September of 2007 as Chief Financial Officer of the USIS Commercial Services Division and became CFO of HireRight following the merger of USIS and HireRight in August 2008.
Prior to joining USIS, Mayo spent 13 years in various financial management roles at General Electric (GE), including CFO of GE Trailer Fleet Services, and CFO of GE Express Financial Solutions and CFO of GE Railcar Services Europe. Mayo also held a number of other key leadership positions while at GE including Pricing Manager, Finance Integration Black Belt and Senior Audit Manager.
Mayo holds a Bachelors of Commerce degree in Finance from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
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Catherine Aldrich - Vice President of Operations
Catherine Aldrich joined HireRight in November 2009 as Vice President of Operations. Ms. Aldrich is responsible for leading HireRight’s service delivery functions for verifications, public records and customer service.
Ms. Aldrich came to HireRight from Accurate Background, where for the past nine years she was Executive Vice President as well as Corporate Compliance Officer relating to all federal and state/local credit reporting laws. Her duties included overseeing operations for background screening product lines; responsibility for client servicing activities; managing the corporate marketing department; driving a successful companywide ISO 9001:2000 certification; and helping to guide company strategy and direction. Prior to joining Accurate Background, she held the position of Vice President of Product Management at ChoicePoint from 1996–2000.
Ms. Aldrich has served on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS) and is a member of several professional organizations including the NAPBS Background Screening Credentialing Council (BSCC) and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).
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Lisa A. Gallagher - Vice President of International Business
Lisa A. Gallagher joined HireRight in September 2000 as the Vice President of Human Resources, became the Vice President, Operations in April 2001 and became the Vice President of International Business in October, 2008.
From February 2000 to September 2000, Ms. Gallagher was responsible for human resources at Access360, an enterprise software company that was later acquired by International Business Machines Corporation ("IBM"). From 1995 to 1999, she served as Human Resources Representative and then Director of Human Resources for Fujitsu Business Communication Systems, Inc., a telecommunications company.
Ms. Gallagher holds a B.A. in Business Administration from California State University at Fullerton.
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Marc Maloy - Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Marc Maloy joined HireRight as a National Sales Executive in 2001, became Director of Enterprise Sales in 2006, and became the Vice President of Worldwide Sales in April 2009. In his role as Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Mr. Maloy focuses on sales strategy and execution leading to new customer acquisition across the large, mid-market, and small business sales teams.
Before joining HireRight, Mr. Maloy held operations and customer service management positions for Certico Verification Services, a pre-employment background screening company, where he oversaw a large production staff.
Mr. Maloy holds a bachelor's degree in both Operations Management and Human Resources Management from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.
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Stefano Malnati - Vice President of Engineering
Stefano Malnati has served as HireRight’s Vice President of Engineering since February 2004.
From November 2002 to January 2004, Mr. Malnati was Vice President of Product Management and Business Development at ImpactXoft, Inc., a software development firm focused on providing applications to manage the collaborative design process for 3-D product development, including consumer goods and electronics. From October 1999 to November 2002, Mr. Malnati served as Senior Vice President of Engineering for PRAJA, Inc., a developer of business activity monitoring software which was acquired by TIBCO Software Inc. during his tenure. From 1997 to October 1999, Mr. Malnati served as Vice President of Engineering for Centric Software Inc., a provider of enterprise software solutions relating to managing product or capital program initiatives.
Mr. Malnati holds a degree in Electronics from the Instituto Tecnico of Gallarate, Italy, and has studied Computer Science at the Universita'degli Studi in Milan, Italy.
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Valerie Nellen, Ph.D. - Vice President of Human Resources
Valerie Nellen joined HireRight in April 2009 as the Vice President of Human Resources. She leads and manages HireRight’s efforts to attract, develop, engage, and retain its highly talented workforce. Ms. Nellen brings over 14 years of combined business strategy and leadership experience to the HireRight executive team.
Prior to joining the firm, she was a management consultant with PRTM, specializing in organizational development and operations strategy and focused on the electronics, services, and software industries. Before that, Ms. Nellen developed broad-based business experience as an Operations Manager and an HR business partner at Conexant Systems, Inc. She has also served as an organizational development consultant and executive coach with Workplace Initiatives in Richmond, Va.
Ms. Nellen graduated cum laude from Harvard University and holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University.
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Robert J. Pickell - Vice President of Customer Solutions
Robert J. Pickell has served as HireRight’s Vice President, Customer Solutions since March 2007 and assumed responsibility for Marketing in November 2007.
From September 2001 to November 2006, Mr. Pickell was Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at Quantum Corp., a global supplier of data storage systems. From 2000 to 2001, Mr. Pickell served as Executive Vice President, General Manager of Escrow.com, a financial services company providing online transaction settlement solutions. From 1999 to 2000, he served as Vice President of Partner Marketing for Stamps.com, a provider of online mailing and shipping products. From 1994 to 1999, he served as Group Director of Marketing and Channel Development for AirTouch Cellular. Mr. Pickell's prior experience also includes working as a Project Consultant for the Center for Applied Research, a management consulting firm specializing in corporate strategy and organizational development, and as an Associate Consultant for Hewitt Associates, a human resources outsourcing and consulting organization.
Mr. Pickell graduated with a B.A. in Economics with department honors from Pomona College, and with an M.B.A. with distinction from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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