Curt Melone has a successful background as an entrepreneur in multiple industries. He has been involved in start-up ventures in manufacturing, finance, restaurant and Internet technology based companies. With little or no start-up capital, he has grown companies to an excess of 50 million per year in sales. Today he now is recognized as a top-level consultant for turnaround and start-up technology based companies and has multiple thriving businesses of his own.
As the CEO and founder of a mortgage bank, he grew his business to be valued at over 20 million in 2 years time. In addition, he was involved in the development of what is now a leading CRM software application valued at over 75 million. He then started a financial conglomerate with over 400 employees and 9 individual licenses adapting to the current changes in the financial industry in late 2007. The firm was valued at over 50 million dollars.
As a partner of a top-level technology firm, Curt brought business development attributes and joint venture strategies to the firm. Specializing in 5-10 million dollar companies with 10-20% capital remaining, Curt would serve as the interim CEO or COO of the firm during the restructuring period. In 2 years time, he worked with 3 turnarounds and one starts up. All 3 turnarounds had a positive result via acquisition or steady growth. The startup has currently made him the COO and co-owner of the start-up later to sell for a considerable profit.