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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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  Nora Apsel, Software Engineer

  Nora is working on creating some new additions to the Help Center.

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  Randy Au, Data Analyst

  Randy thinks numbers can talk and spends his time spreading their messages to everyone so we're all smarter about what we do.

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  Jurate Baubliene, Finance Manager

  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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  Abigail Besdin, Account Coordinator

  Abigail chose to join the Meetup Team because she thinks it's important to work for a company with a clearly articulated mission and Meetup's mission was something she was genuinely drawn to.

  She's one of the latest additions to the Sponsorship Team, mainly supporting Cindy and Mary make the awesome, well, more awesome. More formally, she's helping build and facilitate relationships between brands and Meetup Groups.

  Abigail is a member of The Williamsburg Modern Lit Book Club, but is actively seeking more groups!

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  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.

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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, Lead UI Engineer

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

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  Rebecca Cloyd, Community Intern

  Rebecca works with the Community Team, focusing her energy where it is most needed on any given day. That could be updating and editing the Help Section, greeting new Members, or writing posts for the Meetup HQ Blog. Deciding to work at Meetup was an easy decision once she saw the upbeat and inventive way that the Meetup Team works.

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  Jereme Corrado, Senior Systems Administrator

  Jereme helps design and maintain the infrastructure that builds and publishes Meetup.

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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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  Mike DeBenedittis, Product Manager

  Mike helps design and launch great new features and products for Meetup. You can visit his personal site here.

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  Anna DeYoung, Research Associate

  Anna researches member activity, helps test new ideas, drops in on Meetup Groups and keeps a finger on the pulse of our community -- all to produce insights that drive strategy at Meetup. As the resident anthropologist, she wants to know all about how and why people use Meetup to form and maintain local groups.

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  Erin Dertouzos, Team Development Manager

  Erin recruits for our superstar 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.

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  Adam Detrick, UI Engineer

  Adam helps develop and maintain the front-end of Meetup. He's also a member of the New York Web Standards Meetup and the New York Web Performance Meetup.

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  Ashlee Edwards, Community Intern

  Ashlee wears a few different hats on the Community Team, but mainly edits and creates new help content to ensure clarity and accuracy so we can have the best answers for our members. She also greets new organizers to Meetup and chose to work here because she appreciates the environment and spirit of Meetup as whole--to encourage team and community building to help get really great stuff done. What I love about Meetup is that it expands one's scope by expanding your community, which helps with not only community but personal growth.

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  Ivy Feraco, UI Engineer

  Ivy helps develop and improve the Meetup user interface with code and a little TLC. She's happy to *finally* work for a web company that has positive impact - in real communities.

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  Merrill Ferguson, Director of Technology Operations

  Merrill works with the Quality Assurance and Operations team to help ensure high quality and frequent releases.

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  Kathryn Fink, Strategy and Community

  Kathryn serves as a Strategy and Community maven with one goal: Meetups Everywhere About Most Everything. Currently, she partners with organizations/websites/bloggers/apps/causes/media outlets/superheroes who wish to engage and scale their offline community by enabling their followers to self-organize using the free Meetup Everywhere platform. Power to the people!

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  Wayne Folkes, QA Lead

  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.

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  Adam Gallinat, Community Team Lead

  Adam answers emails and phone calls from Meetup members and Organizers. He also helps support the rest of the Community Team as we work to make the Meetup community even more successful.

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  Tamara Garvey, Community Specialist

  Tamara provides support to the Meetup community so that they can navigate the site and make their Meetups more successful. She loves hearing from Members and Organizers who are passionate about their groups and want to share their stories!

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  Tegan Georges, Community 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, Community Specialist

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

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  Davide Gualandi, QA Engineer

  As part of the QA team, Davide tests Meetup's functionality all day long. He also gets to play with new Meetup features before they are released to members and organizers.

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

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  Nathan Hamblen, API/Platform Engineer

  Nathan works on the Web API and with its developer community to help them make sweet Meetup applications.

  He's an assistant organizer of the New York Scala Enthusiasts Meetup and a big fan of creative programming.

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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 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.

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  Will Howard, Lead 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, 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.

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  Adam Knoerzer, Community Team Lead

  Adam helps Meetup members with any problems or questions they might have in English and en français. He also helps Organizers make their Meetup Groups more successful and is a member of The NYC Pittsburgh Penguins Meetup Group.

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  Cindy Laning, Account Manager for Meetup Sponsors

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

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  Emeline Lavender, Community Team Lead

  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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  Jake Levine, Software Engineering Intern

  Jake is interning here for the summer and working with the Meetup API in order to spark ideas, make exciting widgets and develop new products!

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  Nora Lorenzo, Team Development Intern

  Nora assists Team Development with recruiting and sourcing candidates, as well as forming relationships with local colleges. Nora loves working at Meetup because she is able to see the impact of her work and she loves Meetup’s mission of empowering communities to self-organize.

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  Leo Martin, Legal Team Intern

  Leo is helping to resolve legal issues and is building resources that will help members get answers to their legal questions.

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  Patrick McDonnell, Systems Support Engineer

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

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  Brendan McGovern, Co-Founder, CFO

  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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  Takashi Mizohata, UI Engineer

  Takashi helps evolve and maintain Meetup's interface.

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  Andrea Murphy, Community Team Manager

  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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  Erica Oppenheimer, Community 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, 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!

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  David Pashman, Legal Team Leader

  David works with the business, community and development teams to resolve the legal and business issues that come up as we strive towards a Meetup Everywhere About Most Everything.

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  Linda Paul, Director of Team Development

  Linda oversees all things HR for the Meetup Team and is dedicated to helping make us the best small tech company to work for in New York...or anywhere!

  Linda is the Organizer of Working@Meetup.

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  Isabelle Pierre, Community Specialist

  Isabelle provides support to the Meetup community a la emails, phone calls and greetings. Happy Meetups!

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  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.

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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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  Mike Shapiro, Software Engineering Intern

  Mike is an intern who works with the API to design new applications.

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  Qing Shou, Senior Systems Administrator

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

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  Mary Telesco, VP, Sponsorships

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

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  Rando Torres, Community Specialist

  Rando values each e-mail and phone interaction as an opportunity to cultivate the relationship between Meetup and its members.

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  Matt Trush, Product Manager

  Matt helps design and launch new features and products for 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 Architect

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

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  Greg Whalin, Co-Founder, CTO

  Greg leads the product and technology team, ensuring that they are focused on building the best possible product possible as quickly as possible.

  He is the Organizer of NYC Tech Talks, South Brooklyn Breakfast Club, and Brooklyn Giant Breeds

  His old school home page can be seen at www.whalin.com.

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  Brad Burnham

  Union Square Ventures

  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.

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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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  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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  Todor Tashev

  Omidyar Network

  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.

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  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.

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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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  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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  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.

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