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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  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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  Alejandro Ciniglio, Software Engineering Intern

  Alejandro is one of Meetup's first generation of summer interns and is working on making Meetup accessible on-the-go. He loves 'grammin, reading and long walks on the beach.

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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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  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.

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  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.

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  Kate Fink, Meetup Support 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!

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  Adam Gallinat, Meetup Support Specialist

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

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  Aaron Gardner, Lead Software Engineer

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

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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 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.

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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 founded the 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, 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, Meetup Support 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.

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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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  Cindy Laning, Account Executive for Meetup Sponsors

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

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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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  Gerald Major, Director of Customer Service

  Gerald manages the wow factor for our members, so that every time a member needs to reach out to us at Meetup Support, they are wow-ed by their experience…and IF we fail to do that, we work at wow-ing them on recovery.

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  Patrick McDonnell, Systems Support Specialist

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

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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 members 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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  Shavanna Miller, Meetup Support 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.

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  Takashi Mizohata, UI Engineer

  Takashi helps evolve and maintain Meetup's interface.

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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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  Yuri Niyazov, Software Engineer

  Yuri is currently integrating a large-scale computing platform on the Meetup back-end. He loves Meetup because its highly entrepreneurial environment is a natural match for his personality and skills.

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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, 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 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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  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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  Mercedes Paz, Meetup Support 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.

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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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  Camila Santos, Meetup Support 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.

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  Karina van Schaardenburg, Research Analyst

  Karina does usability and market research to make sure new features are easy to use, so Meetup groups can focus on meeting up, not on figuring out the website.

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  Carrie Seifer, Director of Sales for Meetup Sponsorships

  Carrie's mission is to prove that advertising doesn't have to suck by matching up Meetup groups with interesting and appropriate sponsors who are willing to help support those communities.
  
  She’s a member of the NY Discover Chocolate Meetup and the NY Tech Meetup.

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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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  Vernon Thommeret, Software Engineering Intern

  Vernon is one of the new Software Engineering Interns working at Meetup and hopes to be as disruptive as possible. He's currently working on bringing Meetup to mobile devices and some other fun projects.

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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.

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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 Engineer

  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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  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.

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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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