Mellie Price (https://capitalfactory.com/mentor/mellie-price/)is an eight-time entrepreneur, with experience spanning over 20 years, who has had ventures in industries ranging from healthcare and real estate to entertainment and data security. She is currently the Executive Director of Commercialization at the Dell Medical School (https://dellmed.utexas.edu/). She is a co-founder and a Managing Director of Capital Factory (https://capitalfactory.com/) and is also co-founder of Softmatch (http://www.softmatch.co/), a company that connects large enterprises with the fragmented global startup ecosystem.
Notably, Mellie was also Founder and CEO of Front Gate Tickets (http://www.frontgatetickets.com/), one of the largest ticketing companies processing over $300 million in sales (in 2014) from 2002 to 2015 when it sold to Live Nation.
As a veteran entrepreneur with years of experience as an investor, executive, fund manager, and technologist, Mellie will be talking about her journey from her days as a systems administrator to successfully launching and growing her own company and then some. Often characterizing herself as an "accidental entrepreneur," she will reveal the lessons and insights she's learned from her years in entrepreneurship from launch to exit and the stories that led to those realizations.
