Bob Costello
From Sunshine Review
Bob Costello previously served as the president and CFO of the Sam Adams Alliance. The Sam Adams Alliance sponsors the Sunshine Review.
Prior to beginning his work with the Sam Adams Alliance in 2006, he worked primarily in the investment business, with leadership positions at ABN AMRO Securities, First Tennessee Capital Markets, and, most recently, with Robert W. Baird and Company in Chicago.
Costello has also worked at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. and with the Libertarian Party in San Francisco. From 2002-2004, Bob served as the President of Social Security Choice, a group dedicated to Social Security reform. He was a Republican Presidential delegate candidate in 1988, 1996, and 2000—the last two times for Steve Forbes. In 1994 Bob founded Americans for Limited Terms. In 1996 he was the Steve Forbes Illinois Volunteer Coordinator.
He has served on the boards of the Chairvalle Montessori School and the St. Athanasius Parish Council and School, U.S. Term Limits, Americans for Limited Government, and the Evanston Police Pension Board.
Bob serves currently on the Board of Directors for Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty.
[edit] Education and background
Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Costello graduated from George Washington University in 1976, where he studied economics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He is pursuing a masters degree in accounting, focused on forensic accounting, in addition to his full-time work at the Sam Adams Alliance.
