Mimi San Pedro, The Venture Center's Chief Strategy Officer, is responsible for designing and implementing strategies that will help shape the future of entrepreneurial support in Arkansas and ensure The Venture Center's success with corporate partners, community stakeholders, and participating founders.

She 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. Ms. San Pedro and her family moved to the U.S. forty-five years ago, and she has been an active Arkansas community leader and committed non-profit volunteer ever since. Mimi is a traveling queen, loves to collect art, and is The Venture Center's resident foodie.

For San Pedro, supporting entrepreneurs and innovation at The Venture Center comes from a love for Arkansas and a full-throated belief in entrepreneurs' creativity to build a thriving community. San Pedro is a guide to Arkansas's best, regularly "wowing" heavy hitters in the fintech and innovation industries.