Liam Golightley

Liam Golightley's work experience includes senior leadership roles at Podium, where they served as the Senior Director of Product Management, Growth. Prior to that, they were the Vice President and Head of Product Strategy & Operations at the same company. Liam also worked as the Senior Director and Head of Product Strategy & Operations at Podium.

Before joining Podium, Golightley worked at Google, where they focused on product and sales strategy and operations for the Google Marketing Platform. Specifically, they worked on the Enterprise versions of Google Analytics and Google's Search Engine and Display Management platforms.

Golightley also gained valuable experience at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where they served as a Project Leader. In this role, they worked as a Product Manager and Product Management Lead for an internal startup. Liam also led and worked on various types of strategy projects in the tech, pharma, and retail industries.

Additionally, Golightley has experience as a founder, partnering with a Wharton professor to build an application that promoted peer-to-peer learning through texting. Liam successfully launched and beta tested this application with multiple classes and over 100 students. Liam built the application from scratch using Python and the Django framework.

Earlier in their career, Golightley worked as a Venture Capital Intern at OCA Ventures and as a Summer Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. Liam also held roles at BB&T Capital Markets, where they served as Capital Markets Corporate Banking- Assistant Vice President and as an Interest Rate Derivatives Associate, Assistant Vice President.

Overall, Liam Golightley has a diverse background in product management, strategy, entrepreneurship, and finance, with experience in both start-ups and large corporations.

Liam Golightley holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, obtained between 2014 and 2016. Liam also completed an M.S. in Design Innovation from the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University during the same period. Before their graduate studies, Liam earned a Bachelor's degree in Finance, International Business, and Mandarin from the University of South Carolina. Their secondary education was completed at Princeton High School in New Jersey. Additionally, Liam obtained certifications in CS50x: Introduction To Computer Science from Harvard University in September 2020, and in Machine Learning Foundations: A Case Study Approach from the University of Washington through Coursera Course Certificates in December 2016.