LAUNCHWISE - Key Persons


Melissa Grimshaw-Vargas - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Founder
  • San Francisco Strategist
Melissa is a San Francisco strategist with Wyoming roots. A Magna Cum Laude graduate of Cal Poly's Orfalea College of Business with continuing studies at Stanford, she's worked with US and international companies ranging from $500,000 to $5 billion in revenue to launch products, campaigns, brands and businesses. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Women Business Owners Silicon Valley. And because life is not all spreadsheets and email, she's also studied improv with the Groundlings, read all 72 of Agatha Christie's books and been shot at on a train in Greece. Not in that order.