Fred Schmidt Mbe Email & Phone Number

Austin, TX, US

Austin, Texas, United States

Serve on the Board of Advisors and as an Advisor to Management. Also as a Mentor to scaling CF accelerator and portfolio companies preparing to expand their businesses abroad. Periodically lead VIP facility tours and exploratory partnership meetings with global companies and governments seeking to engage with the CF ecosystem and overall Texas Manifesto.

Austin, Texas Area

Worked with an amazing array of startups and scaleups in all stages of growth and covering all industry sectors, plus an all-star staff and over 200 veteran Mentor colleagues. Texas statewide in scope through the Capital Factory network. Assisted Texas companies ready to expand outbound internationally. And soft-landed inbound companies to the U.S. market.

Austin, Texas, United States

After 27 years as Co-Founder and CEO, I have transitioned leadership and management to the next generation! Still serve as Board Chair, Advisor to Management, and handle various aspects of the business pertaining to leases, legal, finance, expansions, strategic planning, etc.

Texas Hill Country

La Casa Arboles -- which means "house in the trees" -- is a very special property deep in the Texas Hill Country that my wife and I were fortunate enough to purchase during the pandemic and move out to as our new home base. Nestled on acreage amongst a variety of greenery and wildlife, being here has transformed our lives and rooted us back in the planet.

Austin, Texas

Over the past 29 years our team has developed and built 4 successful retail concepts in thriving Downtown Austin: Wild About Music, a unique music lifestyle store with a knowledgeable "music concierge"​ staff and a passionate global customer base. On Congress Avenue, The Main Street of Texas, near the intersection of the renown 6th Street Historic &.

Austin, Texas, United States

London & Partners is the international trade, investment and promotional agency for the Greater London Area (GLA). I was privileged to lead a team of 15 business development professionals in 5 offices across North America during a most challenging time: the peak of the early COVID pandemic. For me, this was a dream job working for my favorite city on the.

Austin, Texas

Served as a Mentor to both the startup and scaling companies, as well as to the SKU management team, as this accelerator program grows into one of the most formidable in the USA for launching great new brands in consumer products.

Austin, Texas

Portalarium is the current scaling company of Hall-of-Fame Game Designer, Richard "Lord British" Garriott, dedicated to creating immersive online worlds. Early products launched while working in the mobile-social space included Ultimate Collector, a unique game of shopping, collecting and world-building for play on PC-browser and Facebook via the Zynga.

Austin, Texas Area

Business development and management consultant to clients in a variety of industries worldwide: technology, entertainment, consumer, academia and economic development. Concentrations of work in Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and London.

Austin, Texas Area

Start up venture by the former MicroProse team to re-build a great brand and franchise around massively multiplayer games (MMOs) in the military and espionage space. Signed several top book authors for fictional narratives but never got fully off the ground due to lack of funding to make these types of inherently large games. Too late in that market.

Austin, Texas Area

Part of the management team that built the North American and European development and publishing operations for this leading, Seoul-based, massively multiplayer online game company. US HQ was in Austin, TX; EU HQ was in Brighton, UK; five development studios in Western US. Key titles included Lineage, City of Heroes and Guild Wars. Took from $1M to $70M.

Austin, Texas Area

Part of the management team that built ORIGIN into a top brand for computer games, culminating in an M&A with top independent publishing giant, Electronic Arts. Best-selling titles included the Ultima Series of fantasy role-playing games from Hall-of-Fame game designer, Richard "Lord British" Garriott, and the Wing Commander Series of space combat games.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Led marketing efforts for the legendary MicroProse brand of computer games focusing on military combat simulations (F-15 Strike Eagle, F-117A Stealth Fighter, Gunship, Silent Service, Airborne Ranger, many others) and strategy games from Hall-of-Fame game designer Sid Meier (Civilization, Pirates, Railroad Tycoon and Red Storm Rising based on the Tom.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Mass Communications, Marketing, International Business

Activities and Societies: Graduated with High Distinction.

Certificate Of Completion, Radio Broadcasting

Education record

Warren, Michigan