Cameron Mitchell

Cameron Mitchell, Angel investor in Columbus is an active investor based in Columbus, Ohio. This profile covers what Cameron Mitchell backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Mr. Cameron Mitchell is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Cameron Mitchell Restaurants. At the age of 22, He graduated from the CIA and started his professional career with the 55 Restaurant Group based in Columbus, Ohio. In 2019, He published his book Yes is the Answer! What is the Question? The book chronicles Mitchell's rise in the restaurant industry from troubled youth to the highs and lows of growing his multi-unit, multi-concept, nationwide, associate-centered restaurant company. The book made Forbes' list of 12 Best Business Memoirs of all Time, with Lee Iacoca, Danny Meyer, Ben Franklin, and others. Globally, He was recently honored with the 2023 Entrepreneur of the Year East Central Lifetime Achievement Award from Ernst & Young (EY). He has also been recognized as Entrepreneur of the Year by EY, as a Small Business Person of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration, and as one of 50 New Taste Makers by Nation's Restaurant News. He also received the Richard Melman Concepts of Tomorrow Award in 2005; a prestigious Silver Plate award from the International Foodservice Manufacturers Association; a Commitment to People Award from the Council of Hotel and Restaurant Trainers (CHART) in 2007, and in 2008, was inducted into the Junior Achievement Hall of Fame. Mitchell was honored to be named one of five Golden Chain Winners by Nation's Restaurant News in 2009. He completed a two-year term as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the CIA. Among his services to numerous local charities and committees in Columbus, Ohio, where he lives with his family, is his dedication to The United Way, Nationwide Children's Hospital Foundation, and the Columbus State Community College Foundation. He chaired the capital campaign, led by his $3.5 million donation, towards the newly opened Mitchell Hall, a $40 million, state-of-the-art Hospitality Management and Culinary Arts School at Columbus State. He is also an active member of the Young Presidents' Organization and the Columbus Partnership.