About Meetup

Meetup is the world's largest network of local groups. Meetup makes it easy for anyone to organize a local group or find one of the thousands already meeting up face-to-face. More than 2,000 groups get together in local communities each day, each one with the goal of improving themselves or their communities.

Meetup's mission is to revitalize local community and help people around the world self-organize. Meetup believes that people can change their personal world, or the whole world, by organizing themselves into groups that are powerful enough to make a difference.

Learn more on the MeetupHQ Blog.

Monthly
visitors
6 million
Members
5.7 million
Monthly
RSVPs
2.5 million
Monthly
Meetups
179,000
Local
groups
58,936
Meetup
Topics
8,340
Cities
11,507

Our team

  • Victor A, Community Specialist
    Victor A, Community 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!

  • Camille Alexander, Operations Manager
    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.

  • Nora Apsel, Software Engineering Intern
    Nora Apsel, Software Engineering Intern

    Nora is one of the interns excited to be working at Meetup this summer. She is working on creating some new additions to the Help Center.

  • Jurate Baubliene, Senior Accountant
    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.

  • Tammy Birdsley, Community Specialist
    Tammy Birdsley, Community 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.

  • Richard Boenigk, UI Engineer
    Richard Boenigk, UI Engineer

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

  • Gary Burns, VP, Software Engineering
    Gary Burns, VP, Software Engineering

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

  • Will Carlough, Software Engineer
    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.

  • Justin Cataldo, UI Engineer
    Justin Cataldo, UI Engineer

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

  • Keith Corwin, Lead Software Engineer
    Keith Corwin, Lead Software Engineer

    Keith codes new features and tools to make Meetup better.

    He's the Organizer of NYC Cycling & Food.

  • Erin Dertouzos, Team Development Associate
    Erin Dertouzos, Team Development Associate

    Erin recruits for our superstar Support Team and helps 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.

  • Merrill Ferguson, Lead QA Engineer
    Merrill Ferguson, Lead QA Engineer

    Merrill leads the QA team and works with all our teams to help deliver quality releases to the Meetup community.

  • Kate Fink, Community Specialist
    Kate Fink, Community Specialist

    Kate provides awesome support to members and organizers so they can create successful Meetup groups in their communities. She loves photos of members and organizers with their pets, so be sure to send those her way!

  • Wayne Folkes, QA Engineer
    Wayne Folkes, QA Engineer

    Wayne works on the QA team to help ensure that releases are top quality. He is a member of the NY Tech Meetup and is also a huge Yankees fan.

  • Adam Gallinat, Community Specialist
    Adam Gallinat, Community Specialist

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

  • Aaron Gardner, Lead Software Engineer
    Aaron Gardner, Lead Software Engineer

    Aaron develops and designs some of the software that powers Meetup.

  • Tegan Georges, Community Specialist
    Tegan Georges, Community Specialist

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

  • Andres Glusman, VP, Strategy
    Andres Glusman, VP, Strategy

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

  • Angela Groninger, Community Specialist
    Angela Groninger, Community Specialist

    Angela writes, edits and posts articles and features on the Organizer Resource Center. She also helps to ensure that new Organizers create great Meetups by making them feel welcomed and supported.

  • Davide Gualandi, Community Specialist
    Davide Gualandi, Community Specialist

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

    He's also the Organizer of JCNY: Japanese Cinema in the City of New York.

  • Jason Hammons, UI Engineer
    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.

  • Mark Hanna, Product Manager
    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.

  • Scott Heiferman,  Co-Founder, CEO
    Scott Heiferman, Co-Founder, CEO

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

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

    To view Scott's full professional bio, a list of his speaking engagements, and a larger photo, please click here.

  • Gary Helmling, Lead Software Engineer
    Gary Helmling, Lead Software Engineer

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

  • Will Howard, UI Engineer
    Will Howard, UI Engineer

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

  • Rich Hsieh, Software Engineer
    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.

  • Adaam Hukins, Operations Coordinator
    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!

  • Steven Huynh, QA Engineer
    Steven Huynh, QA Engineer

    Steven works on the QA team to make sure that all of the features and releases on Meetup are of the highest caliber. He loves playing laser tag, hanging out on boats and is a devout Morrissey fan.

  • Adam Knoerzer, Community Specialist
    Adam Knoerzer, Community Specialist

    Adam helps Meetup members with any problems or questions they might have. He also puts his French skills to use as part of Meetup's internationalization team. Adam is also a member of The NYC Pittsburgh Penguins Meetup Group.

  • Cindy Laning, Account Manager for Meetup Sponsors
    Cindy Laning, Account Manager for Meetup Sponsors

    Cindy builds relationships with Meetup sponsors by helping them support and build great Meetups

  • Emeline Lavender, Community Team Lead
    Emeline Lavender, Community Team Lead

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

  • Simon Lawrence, Software Engineer
    Simon Lawrence, Software Engineer

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

  • Patrick McDonnell, Systems Support Engineer
    Patrick McDonnell, Systems Support Engineer

    Patrick provides tech support for the Meetup team and works on continuously improving the systems at Meetup HQ.

  • Brendan McGovern, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer
    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.

  • Shavanna Miller, Community Specialist
    Shavanna Miller, Community Specialist

    Shavanna helps members and organizers find the meaning of life, the universe and everything. She also answers Meetup-related questions, and puts her German skills to use on the internationalization team.

  • Takashi Mizohata, UI Engineer
    Takashi Mizohata, UI Engineer

    Takashi helps evolve and maintain Meetup's interface.

  • Andrea Murphy, Community Team Manager
    Andrea Murphy, Community Team Manager

    Andrea dishes out delicious customer service to our loyal members.

  • Mike O'Brien, Software Engineer
    Mike O'Brien, Software Engineer

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

  • Erica Oppenheimer, Community Specialist
    Erica Oppenheimer, Community Specialist

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

  • Antonio Ortiz, Community Team Manager
    Antonio Ortiz, Community Team Manager

    Antonio aides in the development of fellow Support Team members and strives to make sure Meetup members have all of the support and help they need!

  • Linda Paul, Director of Team Development
    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.

  • Mercedes Paz, Community Specialist
    Mercedes Paz, Community Specialist

    Mercedes assists members with any concerns or problems they might experience while navigating the site. She is a part of Meetup's internationalization team where she uses her Spanish language superpowers to combat the evil forces of confusion and frustration. Her goal: to ensure that every Meetup group is a successful Meetup group.

  • Joshua Reid, Community Specialist
    Joshua Reid, Community Specialist

    Joshua supports and guides members through any issues they may have. As cheesy as it sounds, his goal is to encourage the Meetup Community at large to make the world a better place, one Meetup at a time.

  • Jesse Richards, Product Manager
    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.

  • Ginamarie Rodriguez, Office Assistant
    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.

  • Camila Santos, Community Specialist
    Camila Santos, Community Specialist

    Camila assists members with any concerns or problems they might experience. She is on Meetup's internationalization team and uses her Portuguese language skills to help members navigate the site and ensure that their Meetup groups are successful.

  • Qing Shou, System Administrator
    Qing Shou, System Administrator

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

  • Mary Telesco, VP, Sponsorships
    Mary Telesco, VP, Sponsorships

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

  • Maya Voskoboynikov, Group Product Manager
    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.

  • Teresa Wall, QA Engineer
    Teresa Wall, QA Engineer

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

  • Greg Whalin, CTO
    Greg Whalin, CTO

    Greg leads the product and dev teams, ensuring that they are focused on building the best possible product possible, in order to achieve Meetup's mission of seeing a Meetup Everywhere about Most Everything.

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

  • Wilfred Yeung, Manager of Strategic Analytics
    Wilfred Yeung, Manager of Strategic Analytics

    Wilfred analyzes the numbers to help inform strategy for Meetup. He's also a member of the NY Tech Meetup and the NYC Ultimate Frisbee Meetup.

Board of Directors

  • Brad Burnham
    Brad Burnham

    Brad is a founding partner of Union Square Ventures, an early stage venture capital group in New York. He invests in web services which, like Meetup, have the potential to fundamentally change important markets. He currently serves on the boards of Indeed, Pinch Media, Tumblr, Bug Labs, Wesabe, Adaptive Blue, and Oddcast.

  • Esther Dyson
    Esther Dyson

    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.

  • Scott Heiferman
    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.

  • Andreas Stavropoulos
    Andreas Stavropoulos

    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.

  • Todor Tashev
    Todor Tashev

    Todor is a Senior Director, Investments at Omidyar Network, a philanthropic investment firm that invests in market-based approaches to help people improve their lives. Todor's role includes leading the Social Media investment area, making investments that encourage people to connect to others with shared interests and take action on what matters to them. Todor serves as a board member for Meetup, a board advisor for O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, and a board observer for Common Sense Media, Federated Media Publishing, and Socialtext.

Meetup Fellows

  • Douglas Atkin
    Douglas Atkin

    Douglas is the author of 'The Culting of Brands', the fruit of 10 years of research into how organizations create loyalty and devotion from their members. He has spent much of his career in Marketing and Advertising, and was most recently Chief Community Officer at Meetup.

  • Senator William W. Bradley
    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.

  • Pierre Omidyar
    Pierre Omidyar

    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

  • Richard Rowe
    Richard Rowe

    Richard Rowe is a clinical psychologist and educator who advises social benefit organizations, focusing on organizational health and development. He has worked in West Africa, was Associate Dean at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, been the CEO of a $500 million publicly-traded internet business, and directed the Internet and Information Services team of the Dean for America presidential campaign. He has been engaged with Meetup since 2003.

Advisory Board

Jim Cashel, Steven Johnson, Kenneth Lerer, Robert Putnam, Ira Rosen, Richard Rowe, Douglas Rushkoff, Andrew Shapiro, Clay Shirky, Brian Sroub, Jeffrey Stewart.

Special thanks

Vadim Akselrod, Alain Bankier, Andrew Beebe, Jen Bekman, Lizzie Blades, John Borthwick, Jim Cashel, Bryan Collins, Eric Costello, Katrina Costello, Drew Curtis, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Adam Dinow, Ed Dintrone, Di-Ann Eisnor, Liza Ezbiansky, Peter F, Brad Fitzpatrick, Jason Fried, Seth Godin, Yair Goldfinger, Rufus Griscom, Gogi Gupta, The Chicago Heifermans, Cory Hubert, Mark Hurst, Steven Berlin Johnson, Louis Kanganis, Peter Kamali (Co-Founder, 5-year CTO), Chris Kramer, Ken Lerer, Alex Lynch, Danielle Manello, James Marciano, Cindy McBennett, Ryan McGinness, Peter Meluso, Bill & Arlys Meeker, Matt Meeker (Co-Founder), Pedro Mendelbaum, Michael Montero, Robin Neustein, Shimon Neustein, Kevin O'Connor, Derek Odegard, Michael Pancheri, Ashish Pant, Judy Parsons, Nalin Patel, Robert Putnam, Scott Reents, Ira Rosen, Jon Rubin, Douglas Rushkoff, Tony Schmitz, Michael Schrage, Andrew Shapiro, Clay Shirky, Genevieve Shuler, Dave Skwarczek, Charles Sommer, Brian Sroub, Jeff Stewart, Peter Sulick, Nadia Svorak, Scott Upton, Rashad Wareh, Michael Weiksner, Myles Weissleder, Alex Weittrich, Jason Wilson, Jeff & Heidi Zinsli, Mark James, the communities behind Linux, Java, Apache, Tomcat, MySQL, Postfix, Tux, Bugzilla, Blogger and Movable Type.

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