Our Team
Leadership. Done Right.
Our Team
Leadership.
Done Right.
HouseCheck’s leadership team is the driving force behind the company’s growing success. These forward-thinking professionals are guided by innovation…efficiency…fiscal responsibility…first-rate customer-service…and a strong, enduring brand identity.
Here’s a look at the HouseCheck Management Team:
HouseCheck’s leadership team is the driving force behind the company’s growing success. These forward-thinking professionals are guided by innovation…efficiency…fiscal responsibility…first-rate customer-service…and a strong, enduring brand identity.
Here’s a look at the HouseCheck Management Team:
Sharon O'Leary: CEO
Sharon O’Leary is a seasoned C-level executive with strong operational management experience and a deep legal background. She has a demonstrated history of working for geographically diverse public and private companies in multiple industries.
Her areas of expertise include corporate governance, structuring and negotiating complex cross-cultural corporate transactions, launching and financing start-up organizations and developing and managing high-performance cross-functional teams.
Sharon has served in multiple capacities including chief legal officer, president and chief operating officer. Currently she serves as a board member for several companies and organizations.
Sean Parry: Chief Growth Officer and VP of Technology
Mr. Parry is a highly successful senior-level executive with over twenty years of success in leading international marketing, customer experience, business development, and technology initiatives. As a career-long marketing and technology professional and entrepreneur, Mr. Parry has experience in functional roles and cross-functional general management capacities for start-up and high-growth public companies.
Mr. Parry has a unique skill set in building and maintaining world-class teams in the technology, software, retail, CPG, consumer electronics, and e-commerce industries.
As a participator in the local business community, Mr. Parry currently serves on several Boards of Advisors and is actively involved in the American Marketing Association and CMO Council. He also has affiliations with the National CMO Club, Intermountain Marketing Association, TechAmerica Executive Committee, and SIIA. Mr. Parry currently holds an active California Real Estate license, and has been recognized in the Cambridge Who’s Who.
Ken Siders: Senior VP of Environmental Services
Rick Rickards: VP of Branding & Creative
Prior to joining the founding management team at HouseCheck, Rick Rickards was an independent marketing strategist, providing brand analysis, marketing planning, and promotional program implementation for a wide variety of national and international clients.
Over the years, Mr. Rickards has worked in numerous capacities, including Account Executive, Art Director, Copywriter, Video Producer, Publisher, Director of Advertising, Creative Director, VP Electronic Media, VP Creative, and VP Marketing. This wide range of hands-on experience prepared him well for helping to launch a national consumer brand like HouseCheck.
Through his consulting firm, Rickards Marketing, Mr. Rickards perfected a proprietary consulting process, beginning with qualitative research for purposes of brand benchmarking, and proceeding through the development and implementation of marketing communications plans expressly designed to position each client for the realization of their goals.
Mr. Rickards is a husband, father of three, grandfather of one, occasional voiceover artist, and semi-professional musician.
Kathleen Carreno: Senior Project Development Manager
Kathleen Carreno is our Senior Project Developer with 10+ years of experience in manufacturing, marketing, sales, and organizational development. Kathleen shifts seamlessly between big-picture strategy and the smallest details to help guide employees and clients in connecting the dots through each project. Kathleen has extensive experience & is well-versed in project management methodologies, organizational change management, risk management, project planning, team building, communication, implementations of organizational change & software development projects.
Kathleen was born and raised in Southern California and relocated to Utah in 2004. She’s a wife and mother of two beautiful children. Kathleen and her husband have owned and operated sushi bars throughout Utah in addition to maintaining her passion in project management. In her spare time, she enjoys creating culinary works of art, writing poetry, and spending time with her family outdoors.
FRANCY FORBES: Director of Government Services
Francy Forbes is a highly productive expert at rapid implementation. She specializes in envisioning and implementing efficient and effective processes and procedures for any industry. She is a highly skilled driver in any fast-paced environment and is focused on reaching goals through attention to detail and quality.
Francy believes that the key to developing a business is the development of its people; learning and leadership go hand-in-hand. She is highly skilled in the training and development of a company’s workforce from analyzing needs to developing a training system to implementation and review.
Francy has earned a BS in Cellular and Molecular Biology and is a graduate of the San Diego County Deputy Sheriff Academy. She enjoyed seven short years in Law Enforcement before becoming a retail entrepreneur. Francy has owned and operated her own retail stores, and also spent many years as a General Manager and District Manager for big box retailers.