About Meetup

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  Victor A, Meetup Support Specialist

  Victor takes care of any questions or problems that Meetup members may have. He's working on starting a Daft Punk "dancing with the dark" Meetup for shy dancers!

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  Camille Alexander, Operations Manager

  Camille maintains Meetup HQ by ensuring a comfortable, and functional work environment. She also manages to assist the CEO with his day to day business activities.

  She's a member of Manhattan Swing Dance Meetup and NY Tech Meetup.

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  Douglas Atkin, Chief Community Officer

  Douglas is Chief Community Officer and is responsible for making the online and offline experience the best it can be, and to grow Meetup to so that there is a Meetup Everywhere about Most Everything.

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  Jurate Baubliene, Senior Accountant

  Jurate closes the books, keeps the accounts in order, and prepares the reporting that keeps everyone informed about the financial position of the company.

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  Tammy Birdsley, Meetup Support Specialist

  Tammy helps members find the right topic for their Meetup and with navigating the site to make their Meetups successful.

  She's the Organizer for Women's Social of Olathe Kansas.

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  Richard Boenigk, UI Engineer

  Rick helps build and maintain the parts of the Meetup site that you can see.

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  Gary Burns, VP, Software Engineering

  Gary schedules the development of new features then rolls up his sleeves to help implement them on time.

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  Will Carlough, Software Engineer

  Will codes new features and makes sure the old ones keep working too.

  He's the Organizer of 8-bit 4-life Meetup. Will's personal site is Diogenes Club.

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  Justin Cataldo, UI Engineer

  Justin helps develop and maintain the front-end features of the site.

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  Keith Corwin, Lead Software Engineer

  Keith codes new features and tools to make Meetup better.

  He's the Organizer of NYC Cycling & Food.

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  Matthew Daly, Lead Support Specialist

  Matthew works to ensure Meetup's members get great customer service.

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  Erin Dertouzos, Team Development Associate

  Erin recruits for our superstar Support Team and helps Linda out with other Human Resources related issues. She’s the Assistant Organizer of Working@Meetup and loves her job because she works with the most talented and inspiring team she’s ever met.

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  Tim Favorite, Software Engineer

  Tim works behind the scenes of the site, adding and maintaining features, to make sure Meetup provides the best possible experience for members.

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  Aaron Gardner, Lead Software Engineer

  Aaron is working on building a brand new product for Meetup called Meetup Marketplace.

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  Tegan Georges, Meetup Support Specialist

  Tegan answers phone calls and emails from Meetup members to help them navigate the site and make their Meetups successful.

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  Andres Glusman, VP, Strategy

  Andres develops insight-informed strategies that help set the company's direction.

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  Angela Groninger, Meetup Support Specialist

  Angela maintains our venue database and assists Organizers in finding the perfect place to Meetup. She also has a hand in selecting and interviewing the Meetup Organizer of the Week.

  You can find Angela's Fotolog at fotolog.com/angelissima/.

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  Davide Gualandi, Meetup Support Specialist

  Davide helps Meetup members with any questions or problems they may have. He puts his bi-lingual talents to use by providing support to our members in Italy and is on Meetup's internationalization team.

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  Jason Hammons, UI Engineer

  Jason helps develop and maintain Meetup's interface. He's also a member of NYC Cycling & Food and the New York JavaScript Meetup.

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  Mark Hanna, Product Manager

  Mark helps plan and launch new features and products for Meetup.com. He is also part of the team that translated the site to Italian and is working on adding more languages to Meetup like French, German, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. He is also the Organizer of The NYC Pittsburgh Penguins Meetup Group.

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  Scott Heiferman, Co-Founder, CEO

  Scott focuses the team on our goal of a Meetup Everywhere About Most Everything.

  He's the Organizer of NY Tech Meetup. You can find Scott's blog at scott.heiferman.com.

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  Gary Helmling, Lead Software Engineer

  Gary codes up new features for Meetup and helps make the existing ones better.

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  Will Howard, UI Engineer

  Will helps build and maintain Meetup's front-end features.

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  Rich Hsieh, Software Engineer

  Rich works on the back-end of the site, coding new features and maintaining existing ones. He is a member of the NY Tech Meetup.

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  Adaam Hukins, Operations Coordinator

  Adaam assists with accounting, with revenue, with HR, and other projects.

  He's a member of the New York City Scrabble Meetup and loves trivia!

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  Steven Huynh, Meetup Support Specialist

  Steven takes care of any questions or problems that Meetup members have. He's working on starting Morrisey Meetups everywhere!

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  Wendy Knox, Senior QA Engineer

  Wendy makes sure that new features and tweaks are working correctly so that Meetups everywhere can keep happening.

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  Lilli Kuhn, Technical Recruiter

  Lilli recruits for the tech team from all over the vast spaces of the internet galaxy.

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  Emeline Lavender, Meetup Support Specialist

  Emeline answers phone calls and emails from Meetup members to help them navigate site and make their Meetups successful.

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  Simon Lawrence, Software Engineer

  Simon works behind the scenes coding great new features for the Meetup community.

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  Malcolm McFarland, UI Engineer

  Malcolm turns the crank on the side of his Front End Code machine to help produce the part of the site that users interact with.

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  Brendan McGovern, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer

  Brendan oversees the money coming in and the money going out, keeps the investors informed, and manages all the legal and administrative complexities that go along with a new business.

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  Matt Meeker, Co-founder & Advisor

  Matt is one of the Co-founders of Meetup.com and now acts as an advisor to the company. In the first five years of Meetup, Matt focused on marketing, operations, the user experience, and revenue strategies.

  He's the Organizer of the Search Marketing Meetup and an active member of The New York Boggle Meetup and NY Tech Meetup.

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  Christopher Munns, Systems Administrator

  Chris helps keep the site up and running and helps support the Meetup staff. He is also a member of the NY Tech Meetup and several other technology-related Meetups.

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  Andrea Murphy, Lead Support Specialist

  Andrea dishes out delicious customer service to our loyal members.

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  Mike O'Brien, Software Engineer

  Mike writes code to add to and improve Meetup's tools and helps maintain the developer API.

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  Derek Odegard, Lead UI Engineer

  Derek helps build new features and tools while also keeping the website looking pretty.

  He also has this thing over here.

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  Erica Oppenheimer, Meetup Support Specialist

  Erica answers phone calls and emails from Meetup members to help them navigate the site and make their Meetups successful.

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  Antonio Ortiz, Meetup Support Specialist

  Antonio answers phone calls and emails from Meetup members to help them navigate the site and make their Meetups successful.

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  Linda Paul, Director of Team Development

  Linda recruits talented folks to join the Meetup team and is dedicated to making it the best small tech company to work for in New York.

  Linda is the Organizer of Working@Meetup.

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  Jesse Richards, Product Manager

  Jesse plans new features and products for the Meetup site, and then works with a team to make sure they get built well. Jesse organizes the Central Park Sketch Group. You can visit his web site at www.jesserichards.com and his blog at www.secretpeace.com.

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  Ginamarie Rodriguez, Office Assistant

  Ginamarie is a “jill of all trades,” making sure the office is running smoothly as well as assisting with special projects as they pop up. She is the lovely voice you hear when calling Meetup HQ.

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  Karina van Schaardenburg, Research Analyst

  Karina takes care of research needs as they come up and generally helps out around the strategy team.

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  Qing Shou, System Administrator

  Qing keeps the servers running smoothly and handles tech support for our staff.

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  Mary Telesco, Director of Account Management

  Mary is focused on managing relationships with partners to provide resources that support and grow great Meetups.

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  Viviane Valvezan, Product Manager

  Viviane works with a team to plan new features and products for the Meetup site and to make sure they get built well.

  She is also the Organizer for the Vintage Hairstyling Meetup!

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  Maya Voskoboynikov, Group Product Manager

  Maya leads the product management team and helps make sure the online Meetup experience is the best it can be.

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  Teresa Wall, QA

  Teresa makes sure new and existing Meetup features are running smoothly.

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  Greg Whalin, CTO

  Greg leads the dev team, ensuring that they are focused on building a scalable, robust, and reliable product with an eye towards the future.

  His personal site can be seen at www.whalin.com.

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  Senator William W. Bradley

  Allen & Company LLC

  Senator Bradley is a Managing Director of Allen & Company LLC. Senator Bradley served in the U.S. Senate from 1979 to 1997 representing the state of New Jersey. In 2000, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. Prior to serving in the Senate, he was an Olympic gold medalist and a New York Knick, winning 2 NBA championships. He has authored five books on American politics, culture and economy.

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  Brad Burnham

  Union Square Ventures
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  Esther Dyson

  EDventure

  Esther Dyson is editor of Release 1.0 (a CNET Networks property) and serves as court jester to the online world, as loving critic, angel investor, long-sighted analyst and enthusiastic participant.

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  Scott Heiferman

  Meetup

  Scott co-founded Meetup in 2002. Previously, he founded Fotolog (the leading photo blog service) and i-traffic (the first online ad agency). Scott was named MIT Technology Review's "Innovator of the Year" for 2004. He graduated from The University of Iowa, he is the Organizer of the NY Tech Meetup and has posted a daily photo on his Fotolog since early 2001.

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  Pierre Omidyar

  eBay and Omidyar Network

  Pierre is the founder and chairman of eBay. Inspired by the social value created by eBay and Meetup, Pierre and his wife Pam established Omidyar Network to fund businesses and nonprofit organizations that leverage market-based, collaborative approaches to create opportunity for people around the world. Pierre also serves as a trustee of Tufts University, Punahou School, and Santa Fe Institute

  Photo credit: Allison V. Smith

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  Andreas Stavropoulos

  Draper Fisher Jurvetson

  Andreas is a venture capitalist and Managing Director at DFJ, where he serves on the Boards of a number of cool companies, including Meetup. Andreas focuses primarily on software investments (enterprise infrastructure and consumer/Internet), wireless networking, and technology-enabled services.

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