The two entities of Dallas and Tech Wildcatters play off of each other and have experience tremendous growth because of it. To that end, Tech Wildcatters recently announced that they would be hiring Molly Cain as the new Executive Director of the accelerator. When Draney started Tech Wildcatters a few years back, there was largely nothing happening in the Dallas tech ecosystem. There were plenty of people telling her to move to the Bay Area, but she didn’t want to abandon Dallas that quickly. Her loyalties were rewarded when Dallas began to attract some serious entrepreneurial talent. And then, to help scale Tech Wildcatters with the rest of Dallas, Draney took on some new investments and partners. Currently she’s dedicating her time to fueling PR and Marketing efforts all in the name of answering the question of how to get Tech Wildcatters nationally and globally recognized. What Draney also realized was that to grow her company she needed to hire an Executive Director to run the day to day of the accelerator, which is a huge step given that it’s been her duty for so long. To date, Tech Wildcatters has an executive team lead entirely by women, a rare feat compounded only the the even more rare fact that most accelerators are run by men. They do hire men as Tech Wildcatters is absolutely a proponent of diversity in the workplace, but the hiring of Cain came down to the ultimate question of company culture fit.
