From 'Largest Merger in Software History' to Hollywood.

Successful entrepreneur and venture capitalist, David Mendez, has turned his sights to Hollywood to produce feature films, with budgets ranging from $5 to $40 million. Mr. Mendez’s new production company, Monterrey Pictures, is currently embarking on it is first venture, “700 Hill”, based on true events in the history of the Mexican-American experience.

Mr. Mendez’s move into the film industry is quite a turn from his business background. “The process of producing a film is pure entrepreneurship at its best, and that’s where I’m comfortable”, says Mr. Mendez. With his success in business and investing, Mr. Mendez plans to repeat his serial success through collaboration with existing industry players. “I’ve already met some fantastic potential creative and business collaborators, and the response to the initial project has been overwhelming”.

Mr. Mendez started his career with large companies such as DuPont and General Electric. After obtaining his MBA and working internationally in the U.K. and Belgium, Mr. Mendez co-founded a supply chain software company, Supplybase.inc. in 1996 in San Francisco. Acquiring venture capital funding, Mr. Mendez and his business partners sold the business to i2 Technologies (ITWO) in 2000 for $380 Million along with i2’s acquisition of another public software company for over $6 Billion, in the “Largest Merger in Software History” at that time. Subsequent to the sale, Mr. Mendez started the New York City office for a Pennsylvania-based venture capital and consulting firm. Since early 2004, Mr. Mendez has been an individual executive consultant to a variety of companies in the technology, business services, media and consumer products industries, and continues to make private equity investments in businesses and real estate.

ABOUT MONTERREY PICTURES LLC
Monterrey Pictures develops and produces feature films. Monterrey Pictures and Mr. Mendez are represented by Anthony Callie of Eisner & Frank.