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Mellie Price has 20 years experience as a successful entrepreneur and executive. Most recently she founded Source Spring where she serves as Managing Partner. Source Spring has invested in over 20 early-stage organizations and is actively involved in the Austin business and non-profit community. Prior to Source Spring, Mellie founded Front Gate Solutions and Front Gate Tickets in 2003. She bootstrapped the company from her living room and in 2011 the system powered over $70M in ticket sales in 800+ cities across North America. Front Gate Tickets was acquired in September 2012. Ms. Price’s experience also includes several senior executive roles: Senior Vice President at Human Code (1997), a leading software and application developer that was funded by Austin Ventures and sold to Sapient Corporation (NASDAQ: SAPE) in 2000. At Sapient, a top-tier business and technology consultancy, Mellie was a Vice President in the Media, Entertainment, and Communications division. Price started her career as a designer, programmer, and system administrator when she founded Monsterbit (1993), one of the first commercial web development and web hosting companies in the nation (acquired by Human Code in 1997). She was also a co-founder of Symbiot Security(2001), leaders in risk metrics for adaptive network security. Mellie is also a founding investor and lead mentor for Captial Factory — a seed stage mentoring program and co-working facility in Austin, TX. She holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Texas at Austin and serves on the Board of Directors the Animal Trustees of Austin and the Sustainable Food Center. |
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Jesse architected the software and infrastructure powering Front Gate Solutions' ecommerce and ticketing platforms. Prior to joining Front Gate Solutions, Jesse led the development of several Monsterbit projects including Avenue One and the Earth&Sky Radio Series. Prior to Monsterbit, Jesse worked as a consultant for Digital Mercenaries to develop Holt, Rinehart and Winston's HLLA companion website. He was a senior software architect for Human Code and Sapient from 1998-2001 and developed software products for ecommerce, learning technologies and video games for clients including the IC2 Institute, Leapfrog Enterprises, Albertsons and THQ. Prior to joining Austin-based Human Code, Jesse worked for web design firm Cymfony.net in Buffalo, NY, after graduating from Alfred University with a B.F.A. |
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Lax Gani leads Source Spring's user-centered design (UCD) practice, creating online products that match users' innate needs, behaviors and expectations to help businesses exceed their key performance goals. With nearly two decades of Web strategy & design leadership, Lax served over 10 years as director of user experience and information architect at Builder Homesite (BHI), where he oversaw the specification & design of over 20 leading consumer websites and intranet applications in homebuilding, real estate and related fields. Prior to that, he was website manager for the former Rx.com, an online pharmacy pioneer. Lax also has an extensive background in media production. He served as Texas Monthly's new media director, and as the Austin Chronicle's first online services director beginning in 1994. He graduated from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications with a B.S. in Producing for Electronic Media. |