Mitch Thrower

Athlete, Business leader, Connector, Entrepreneur, Idea generator, Investor, Philanthropist, Social entrepreneur, World traveler, Writer/Editor

Mitch Thrower is a financier, entrepreneur, author and a 22X Ironman triathlete. He is the Founder and Chairman of Events.com, an innovative cloud-based Event Management Platform provider that provides a state of the art mobile-first SaaS application that enables the full event life-cycle, connecting event organizers and event goers. Events.com enables event organizers to plan, promote, and ticket their events while also providing event goers the tools to discover, register, collaborate, share, and celebrate their experiences. Thrower also serves as Chairman of The La Jolla Foundation, a 501c3 foundation whose primary initiative is Project Active, providing funding, mentoring, encouragement and education to areas of world tension. Specifically — sending sports equipment to children in war zones. Thrower was the Co-Founder of http://www.active.com (The Active Network, Inc.). He also launched ActiveEurope.com (Active Europe Network) as Co-Founder and CEO. Active went Public before selling to Vista for 1.05 billion. Thrower was the President and Chief Operating Officer of Triathlete Magazine, the world's largest triathlon magazine where he also served as Chairman. He has also served as the Chief Interactive Officer, Strategist & Senior Correspondent for the Competitor Group (CGI), the active lifestyle industry's leading media and event entertainment company. Specialties: All C-level executive positions - Entrepreneurship, raising capital, start-up to growth phase of business launch. International entrepreneurship and expansion. Licensing, legal, managing rapid growth. Navigation of private ventures to profitable liquidity events. Author and monthly columnist.

The fountain of youth is movement. Providing the world a powerful nudge in the direction of peace, inspiring others to achieve their dreams, and creating things. I love to write, laugh, learn.

What if you could change the world? What if you could do something today that would forever change the course of human interaction for the better? It has happened in the past. One man or woman, one idea: on so many occasions, it has caused positive change. Think Einstein. Think Lincoln, Teresa, Jefferson, and Gandhi. Now, think you. A few years ago, after working hard to build a company from scratch to several hundred millions in value it hit me like a frozen fish. People all around the world are at war. People kill people. We remain blissfully unaware of where new genius lies, and we are not consistently sparking philanthropy. So, I decided to start a foundation. With the intent of giving something back to life, I created The La Jolla Foundation Inc., a 501c3 California Corporation with the intention of building it into a one hundred-million dollar endowed Foundation in the next 10 years.

Author, Entertainment, Entreprendeurship & Innovation, Finance, Journalism, Philanthropic & Non-for-Profit Leadership, technology

I'm not sure what my "Ted Story" is intended to be, but I've been a fan of TED since it was first introduced to me decades ago. Stay tuned...

Making people laugh until their sides hurt