Bridget Robeson
Vice President of Corporate Development
Bridget Robeson Costigan is the Vice President of Business Development at American Research Institute, Inc. (ARI) and has lead sales for ARI for the past 3 years.
Mrs. Costigan’s professional career encompasses twenty years of experience in the information systems industry as an entrepreneur performing broad range of business, technical and training functions including business management, operations management, training management, program & project management, process engineering, technology integration, training analysis & development, business development and technical & training sales.
As Founder and CEO of Niche Networks, Inc. (NNI), acquired by ARI in June 2004, Mrs. Costigan spearheaded the growth of one of the industry’s leading providers of converged network solutions and customized training. Prior to founding NNI, Mrs. Costigan was instrumental in the foundation and growth of Network Evolutions, Inc., an internetworking technology consulting and integration company. Ms Costigan’s demonstrated abilities include satisfying customers, motivating employees, and operating a profitable engineering and training organization, earning a nomination for Ernst and Young’s prestigious Entrepreneur of the Year Award for 2000.
Before her tenure at NEI, Ms. Robeson was a Program Manager and COTR at the Central Intelligence Agency where she led the implementation of an architecture redesign for one of the world’s largest IBM SNA and Token-Ring networks to utilize routing technology.
Ms. Costigan has a Masters of Business Administration and a Masters of Science in Systems Engineering with a concentration in Data Communications from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Ms. Costigan also has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Manhattan College.