About Mimi San Pedro
Executive Advisor, The Venture Center
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Mimi San Pedro is recently retired as the Chief Strategy Officer for the Venture Center, whose immersive accelerator programs are designed to accelerate the growth of early-to-late-stage companies and help validate their solutions for real-world problems. With over 30 years of experience across information, technology, and strategic marketing industries, San Pedro helps galvanize the Venture Center’s growth, driving key initiatives that serve the entrepreneurial and corporate innovation sectors.  Â
San Pedro has more than thirty years of successfully starting and growing a wide range of companies through her strategic marketing efforts for private, public and corporate institutions.  She’s has been a leader in the communications and technology industries with a strong background in building and growing businesses.  Most recently she served as the Chief Marketing Officer for NLC Products, a national catalog, and e-commerce company, where she was responsible for the development of NLC’s digital evolution and led the company’s digital marketing strategic plan. Prior to that, she held senior leadership roles in marketing, strategy, corporate development, and operations at Hortus, Acxiom, and ContourMed.Â
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Incidentally, San Pedro was the chief architect and organizer of the inaugural VenCent Fintech Summit bringing executives and innovators from around the globe solidifying the position of Little Rock as the birthplace of fintech. She also did the same for the inaugural Global Lithium Innovation Summit that brought 700+ attendees from all of the world to Little Rock.Â
