Melinda Smith

Melinda Smith is a highly energetic and innovative Senior Finance Executive with over twenty-five years of diverse experience in public accounting, public enterprise, and venture-backed private industry.

She is actively involved as a private investor and advisor to early-stage businesses, specializing in high-growth, dynamic environments, strategic planning, and M&A activities across various sectors including PaaS/SaaS, Consumer mobile, Fintech, and the Data industry.

Her expertise lies in strategic and financial planning, M&A, financial operations, financial reporting, product insights, software revenue assurance, and start-up human resource management & compliance.

Melinda Smith holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from the University of Michigan's Stephen M. Ross School of Business.

Throughout her career, she has held key financial roles including Chief Financial Officer at ChaosSearch, CFO at Venmo, CFO at Paydiant (acquired by PayPal), CFO at expressor software (acquired by QlikTech), Director of Finance at Aspen Technology, Inc., CFO at edocs, Inc., VP of Finance at Gradient Technologies, Inc., and Audit Manager in the High Tech Group at Price Waterhouse.