🌎 Financier, entrepreneur, author and 22X Ironman triathlete (more info)👇 🔵 Co-Founder & CEO Events.com | Co-Founder: Active.com | Former & Owner: Triathlete Magazine | TEDx Producer | Chairman: La Jolla Foundation 🌎 Helping the world get back together to experience the most meaningful moments of our lives. Events.com helps real world and virtual event organizers make more money and save time, and helps event goers discover and interact with meaningful events. Events.com is a single platform to manage all aspects of event management by providing a wide range of software and services to event organizers and participants. ⚽️ 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. 🏃‍♀️Co-Founder of active.com (The Active Network). Launched ActiveEurope.com (Active Europe Network) as Co-Founder and CEO. Active went public before selling to Vista for 1.05 billion, which then sold several divisions to Global Payments for 1.2 billion. 🚴‍♂️ Former owner, President and Chief Operating Officer of Triathlete Magazine, the world's largest triathlon magazine, also served as Chairman. Former Chief Interactive Officer, Strategist & Senior Correspondent for the Competitor Group. 🏫 Lectured at many colleges such as Stanford University, Anderson School at UCLA, UCSD, and the University of San Diego where he served as the "Entrepreneur in Residence" teaching Entrepreneurship. 📚Author of "The Attention Deficit Workplace: Winning Strategies for Success in Today's Fast-Paced Business Environment," published by Lyons Press. Author of the monthly column "Starting Lines" in Triathlete Magazine for more than a decade. 🎓 Executive Institute at Stanford University; MBA from the University of San Diego; BA from Saint Lawrence University. 22 Ironman Triathlons, including 13 World Championships. 🎥 Only photo journalist to ever photograph and film the Ironman Triathlon while racing in the event. Life is a shooting star, burn bright. 🥪 Addicted to peanut butter. Podcasts and videos: www.mitchthrower.com 👇. DM’s Open. 👇.