About Meetup - Meetup - University of Virginiadigitizingamerica.shanti.virginia.edu/sites/shanti...What I love about Meetup is that it expands one's scope by expanding your community,

Monthlyvisitors6 million

Members7.2 million

MonthlyRSVPs2.2 million

MonthlyMeetups250,000

Localgroups79,000

MeetupTopics46,000

Cities45,000

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

Meetup's mission is to revitalize local community and help people around the world self-organize. Meetup believes that people canchange 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.

Our teamCamille Alexander, Operations Manager

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

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

Nora Apsel, Software Engineer

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

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.

Jurate Baubliene, Finance Manager

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

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 andMeetup'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!

Tammy Birdsley, Community Specialist

About Meetup - Meetup.com http://www.meetup.com/about/

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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

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

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 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, Lead UI Engineer

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

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 andediting the Help Section, greeting new Members, or writing posts for the Meetup HQ Blog. Deciding to work at Meetup was an easydecision once she saw the upbeat and inventive way that the Meetup Team works.

Jereme Corrado, Senior Systems Administrator

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

Keith Corwin, Lead Software Engineer

Keith codes new features and tools to make Meetup better.

He's the Organizer of NYC Cycling & Food.

Mike DeBenedittis, Product Manager

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

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 peopleuse 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’sever met.

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 NewYork Web Performance Meetup.

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 accuracyso we can have the best answers for our members. She also greets new organizers to Meetup and chose to work here because sheappreciates the environment and spirit of Meetup as whole--to encourage team and community building to help get really great stuffdone. What I love about Meetup is that it expands one's scope by expanding your community, which helps with not only community butpersonal growth.

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 companythat has positive impact - in real communities.

Merrill Ferguson, Director of Technology Operations

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

Kate Fink, Community Specialist

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

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 hugeYankees fan.

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 aswe work to make the Meetup community even more successful.

Tamara Garvey, Community Specialist

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

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.

Angela Groninger, Community Specialist

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

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 arereleased to members and organizers.

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

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.

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

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.

Will Howard, Lead UI Engineer

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

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 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 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


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laser tag, hanging out on boats and is a devout Morrissey fan.

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 Organizersmake their Meetup Groups more successful and is a member of The NYC Pittsburgh Penguins Meetup Group.

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

Simon Lawrence, Software Engineer

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

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 newproducts!

Nora Lorenzo, Team Development Intern

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

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.

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, Co-Founder, CFO

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

Shavanna Miller, Community Specialist

Shavanna helps members and organizers find the meaning of life, the universe and everything. She also answers Meetup-relatedquestions, 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.

Andrea Murphy, Community Team Manager

Andrea dishes out delicious customer service to our loyal members.

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

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 strivetowards a Meetup Everywhere About Most Everything.

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 NewYork...or anywhere!

Linda is the Organizer of Working@Meetup.

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'sinternationalization team where she uses her Spanish language superpowers to combat the evil forces of confusion and frustration. Hergoal: to ensure that every Meetup group is a successful Meetup group.

Isabelle Pierre, Community Specialist

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

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 MeetupCommunity 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. Sheis the lovely voice you hear when calling Meetup HQ.

Camila Santos, Community Specialist

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

Mike Shapiro, Software Engineering Intern

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

Qing Shou, Senior Systems Administrator

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

Mary Telesco, VP, Sponsorships

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

Rando Torres, Community Specialist

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

Matt Trush, Product Manager

Matt helps design and launch new features and products for Meetup.

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 Architect

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

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 aspossible.

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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Board of DirectorsBrad BurnhamUnion Square Ventures

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

Esther DysonEDventure

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

Scott HeifermanMeetup

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

Andreas StavropoulosDraper Fisher Jurvetson

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

Todor TashevOmidyar Network

Todor is a Senior Director, Investments at Omidyar Network, a philanthropic investment firm that invests in market-based approachesto help people improve their lives. Todor's role includes leading the Social Media investment area, making investments that encouragepeople 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, andSocialtext.

Meetup FellowsDouglas Atkin

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

Senator William W. BradleyAllen & Company LLC

Senator Bradley is a Managing Director of Allen & Company LLC. Senator Bradley served in the U.S. Senate from 1979 to 1997representing 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 authoredfive books on American politics, culture and economy.

Pierre OmidyareBay 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


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established Omidyar Network to fund businesses and nonprofit organizations that leverage market-based, collaborative approaches tocreate opportunity for people around the world. Pierre also serves as a trustee of Tufts University, Punahou School, and Santa FeInstitute

Photo credit: Allison V. Smith

Richard Rowe

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

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

Special thanksVadim 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, BradFitzpatrick, 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, NalinPatel, Robert Putnam, Scott Reents, Ira Rosen, Jon Rubin, Douglas Rushkoff, Tony Schmitz, Michael Schrage, Andrew Shapiro, ClayShirky, Genevieve Shuler, Dave Skwarczek, Charles Sommer, Brian Sroub, Jeff Stewart, Peter Sulick, Nadia Svorak, Scott Upton, RashadWareh, Michael Weiksner, Myles Weissleder, Alex Weittrich, Jason Wilson, Jeff & Heidi Zinsli, Mark James, the communities behindLinux, Java, Apache, Tomcat, MySQL, Postfix, Tux, Bugzilla, Blogger and Movable Type.

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