Mellie Price, a 30 year Austinite, is the inaugural Executive Director, Commercialization at the Dell Medical School and is responsible for spinning out health-related startups from the University of Texas at Austin. Ms. Price was also the Founder & CEO of Austin’s own Front Gate Tickets, one of the largest privately held ticketing companies in the US/Canada from 2002 to 2015 when it was sold to Live Nation.

Mellie is an experienced investor, executive, fund manager, technologist, and eight-time entrepreneur with a range of business experience from small private sector to a large publicly traded organization. She is well known as a co-founder and Managing Director of the nationally recognized startup accelerator program and entrepreneurial hub, Capital Factory, as well as a former General Partner to its investment fund and current Director of Diversity and Inclusion. Still an active entrepreneur and investor herself, Mellie recently co-founded SoftMatch, a business intelligence platform that helps organizations gain deeper insights about the money they spend on Corporate Innovation.
A frequent presenter and keynote speaker, Ms. Price is an active member of the Texas entrepreneurship community and a winner of the prestigious Austin Business Journal’s 2015 Profiles in Power Award as well as the 2014 Tech Titan Award. She is a member of the Board of Directors for KLRU (PBS-TV),  Leadership Austin, and Mission Capital. She is also a proud founding Advisor to Texas Competes and currently serves on the Technology Advisory Committee for Austin Mayor Steve Adler.