Cathy Dizon

Chair Of The Board Of Directors

2022 - Current

Building San Antonio one startup at a time.

Director, Board Of Directors

2020 - 2022

Geekdom is a new kind of collaborative workspace where Entrepreneurs, Technologists, Developers, Makers, and Creatives help each other build businesses & other cool things together. Our mission is to provide an inspiring environment for bright minds to explore ideas in entrepreneurship, technology, leadership, and creativity and where they can develop talents and connect to a community of like-minded people.

Vice Chair, Board of Trustees

2024

Member, Board of Trustees

2023 - 2024

Mind Science Foundation is a non-profit foundation based out of 117 W El Prado Dr, San Antonio, Texas, United States and focused on educating the public on consciousness and neuroscience.

Director, Board Of Directors

2019

Girls Inc. of San Antonio works to inspire all girls to be strong, smart. and bold. The organization equips girls to navigate gender, economic, and social barriers to grow up healthy, educated, and independent. Girls build confidence and embrace positive decision-making to take charge of their health and well-being, and to achieve academic, personal, and career goals.

Partner and Co-Founder

2017

Active Capital is a venture firm focused on leading seed rounds for B2B SaaS companies. We are founder led capital for founder led companies.

Global Women in VC - Member

2020

Global Women in VC is the largest community of women investors, enabling connections, collaboration & empowerment on a global scale. The community is currently comprised of 2,500+ women investors from 50+ countries.

Founding Member

2023 - 2024

Actively supporting the Texas Venture Community.

Member

2017 - 2024

CEO & Executive Director

2018 - 2019

Represent and lead the San Antonio Angel Investing Community. Work with and coach local entrepreneurs to get them ready to meet with Investors. Hold pitch events and social events designed to connect local investors with founders of thriving local and Texas-based startups. Play an active role in the community to build a culture where investing time, money and resources into our startup ecosystem will help our startups reach their potential. - Trinity's Stumberg Competition Judge - Fall 2018 - Capital Factory's Women in Tech Judge - Fall 2018 - Geekdom's Community Fund Judge - 2018 - CivTech SA Non-City Official Committee Member 2018-2019 - Geekdom's Pre-Accelerator Program - Co-Director Spring 2019 - VCIC Central Regional Finals Judge - Spring 2019 - UTSA' CITE Competition Judge - Spring 2019

Director, Board Of Directors

2021 - 2022

VentureLab is a non-profit organization that is helping create the next generation of innovators and changemakers.

Member Of The Board Of Advisors

2020 - 2021

VentureLab is a non-profit organization that is helping create the next generation of innovators and changemakers.

Beam Angel Network - Founding Committee Member

2020 - 2022

The Beam Angel Network invests in high potential and exceptionally led companies that happen to be founded by women. Beam's mission is to provide equitable access to capital for women-founded companies and to create generational wealth for these founders and the investors that support them. Through quantitative and qualitative research, Beam has confirmed that accessing early stage capital is the biggest barrier to growth for women founders. We want to change this.

Head of Business Operations/ Staff Operations, Cloud Office Practice Area

2014 - 2017

Responsible for leading recurring organizational and operational functions for a $120M global business unit to enable greater efficiency and increased quality on output. Advise the General Manager and other key members of senior management on strategic planning, tactical execution, budgeting, cash flow, investment priorities, and overall business unit performance. Ensure organizational effectiveness through proper planning, execution, integration and automation for new business initiatives by leading the Project Management Office and the Business Intelligence Reporting team. Strengthened company's business by leading implementation of the first offering of Fanatical Support on a Third party Cloud provider's platform.

Director, Corporate Strategy & Development

2012 - 2016

Leads up-front due diligence process in acquisitions. Ensure that project scope, schedules, resourcing and costs are reasonable and achievable and remain within budget. Act as primary point of contact between Rackspace and the acquired company senior leadership to adjust and develop integration plans while identifying issues, concerns and gaps to ensure alignment of objectives. Responsible for developing M&A integration strategies that support business objectives, timelines and budgets; identify and direct resources; establishing timelines, milestones, deliverables, and end-of-integration criteria. Drive day-to-day execution of the integration process, including coaching cross-functional teams, leading weekly integration team meetings, and driving proactive issue resolution. Proven success interacting with executive level management to determine solutions, resolve issues, and present recommendations at a senior level. ** Also, served as Chief of Staff to SVP of Corporate Strategy & Development. Led Organizational Development and Operations Management for Incubated teams under his leadership. ** Board Member representing Corporate Strategy & Development on the Rackspace Technical Change Management Board.

Senior Manager, Cloud Product Operations

2011 - 2012

Oversaw Operational Excellence, Project Management, Incident Management and Problem Management teams as well as the Cloud Intelligence team (Capacity Planning/Supply Demand/Forecasting) for the Cloud Organization. Responsible for process and procedure documentation and communication for Foundations Programs to include: Incident Management, Change Management and Release Management. Developed Enterprise Cloud/ Integration teams that work on Cloud metrics, process improvements and automation implementation. ** Business Leader representing Cloud Operations for Company-wide Rackspace initiatives. ** Board Member representing Cloud Operations on the Rackspace Technical Change Management Board.

Manager of Business Ops/ Business Process Manager

2007 - 2011

Held the first Incident Commander role for the company during customer service disruptions and major corporate impacting events. Developed and implemented Global Crisis/Enterprise Incident Management program to help the company move forward during a company disrupting event. Set aggressive and challenging cross-functional goals within the Crisis Management program that supported the organizational goals and strategies. Led specialized teams for Customer Support, Project Management, Incident Management, Change Management and Business Analytics. Created new processes and procedures for the following programs: Emergency Conditions Team, SAS70 Business Controls, Intensive and Enterprise Support Segments, New Product Integration and Critical Systems Prioritization. ** Received Company's highest honor of the Fanatical Straight Jacket award for successfully managing a Corporate wide impacting event with minimal disruption to the business.

Team Lead/ Account Manager - Linux Support

2005 - 2007