For April’s Startup Happy Hour StartupSac and the Carlsen Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Sac State welcomed another successful startup founder — Anthony Romano, CEO of CREtelligent.

CREtelligent opened its doors more than five years ago as eScreenLogic, a Commercial Real Estate (CRE) environmental due diligence firm focused on desktop, RSRA, Phase-1, and Phase-2 site inspections and reporting for commercial lenders and brokers.

After a brief segment of Zoom breakout room networking, Carlsen Center Executive Director Cameron Law kicked things off with a fireside chat interview with Anthony, diving into a host of topics including:

  • His decision to come to Sacramento and attend Sac State
  • His internship at IBM that launched his career
  • Data and real estate as part of his entrepreneurial pathway
  • The mindsets and skill sets he has needed as CEO
  • Fostering the right culture and ethos, setting the vision, evangelizing the vision
  • How to gain new perspectives through advisory boards, identify things what you’re not great at and surrounding yourself with people who are good at that
  • Recognizing and appreciating the local investors in the region — Moneta Ventures, Mark Haney, and the Sac Angels
  • Why he’s choosing to stay in the Sacramento region.
  • What people can leverage in the region

Check out the full interview and Q&A in the video below.

About Anthony Romano

Anthony, joined the CREtelligent team in December 2018 to lead company business strategy & execution. He spent the better part of the last 15 years in executive and leadership roles at CoreLogic (NYSE: GLGX) and First American Financial (NYSE: FAF), most recently as the Chief Revenue Officer for FAF’s Mortgage Solutions Division. Prior to that, Anthony was a co-founder of CustomerLink Systems, a vertically integrated CRM platform service eventually acquired by Demand Force. He holds a business degree in management and economics from Sacramento State University. He views his role as CEO to evangelize the vision, raise & deploy capital, spread the ethos, and set the pace.