Meetup ist das weltgrößte Netzwerk lokaler Gruppen. Meetup macht es für jedermann leicht, eine lokale Gruppe für gemeinsame Interessen zu organisieren oder eine von tausenden bereits existierender Gruppen zu finden, um persönlich an einem Meetup teilzunehmen. Mehr als 9.000 Gruppen treffen sich jeden Tag in lokalen Communities, alle mit dem einen Ziel, sich selbst oder Ihre Gemeinschaft zu verbessern.
Die Mission von Meetup ist es, lokale Gemeinschaften wiederzubeleben und Menschen rund um die Welt zu helfen, sich selbst zu organisieren. Meetup glaubt, dass die Menschen ihre eigene Welt oder auch die ganze Welt verändern können. Und das indem sie sich in Gruppen organisieren, die die Kraft haben, Veränderungen zu schaffen.
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Camille maintains Meetup HQ by ensuring a comfortable and functional work environment. On top of being the Queen of all things Operations, she also finds time to assist our busy CEO with his day to day business activities.
Amy helps members make meaningful connections with people with shared interests and helps to make sure that Meetup is a safe and trustworthy place. Originally from Minnesota, she loves the outdoors and spends a lot of her free time making art, dancing, and laughing too loudly.
David joined the Community Team to increase his interaction with awesome community-minded people by approximately 92%. When not helping members and organizers navigate their Meetup journey, David spends his time biking about, eating Haagen Dazs, and recording sounds and voices.
Steve is helping the UI team develop and maintain the front-end of both Meetup and Meetup Everywhere.
Anna is an engineer, working on our Internal Tools team.
Farah aims to make things clear, simple and bold through design. She's passionate about creating experiences that mesh online and offline worlds together. When she's not making things on the internet she loves doing yoga, riding her bike and eating lots of Kale.
Lil is thrilled to be a part of the Community Team, helping Meetup members create awesome Meetups, discover new interests, form lasting connections, and impact their communities. In her free time, Lil likes to learn 90s pop songs on the ukulele, eat dumplings, and write haikus.
Odile wants everyone around the world to be able to use Meetup no matter their language. She has lived in many different countries and can certify that people are eager to learn - new mums and geeks are everywhere. She loves picnics, roadtrips and Pina Bausch.
Sarah Jean spends her week trying to break Meetup so members don't have to. Weekends you can find her biking the boroughs in search of the perfect taco with her dog, Oreo, riding sidecar.
Rick helps build and maintain the parts of the Meetup site that you can see.
Julia is responsible for supporting the Finance Team by handling accounts payable, verifying bills, and tracking expense reports. She's also responsible for all of the Biz Ops files.
Julia believes that organization is THE way to success.
Jerry joined the Community Team in the hopes of supporting Meetup members to build a strong community. Outside of the office he enjoys playing ping pong for too long and perfecting his Frosted Flakes only diet.
Paul likes to make pixels light up on everyone’s tiny computers that have silhouettes of partially-eaten fruit on them. He likes recumbent bicycles and old arcade games and he’s weirdly proud to be from Michigan.
Vlad is a back-end software engineer, originally from Romania. He works on fixing bugs and developing new features that will make users love Meetup even more! He has a passion for algorithms and math but, when not programming, he likes exploring the city, in a non-shortest-path traversal, by either running or walking.
Jeff works with the QA team to make sure that Meetup is awesome. In his spare time he likes to play board games, take pictures of food, and insist that Rush is the best rock band of all time.
Will is a computer programmer.
Mike works on the Meetup app for Android, fixing bugs and adding new features.
Ian does everything in his power to keep Meetup...up.
Keith builds tools to help members and organizers bring their Meetups to the next level. He is currently living in Berlin, and is a co-organizer of the local chapter of Hack and Tell.
Troy provides daily tech support at Meetup HQ.
Ella provides support to the Meetup community. In her spare time she enjoys YA novels and theorizing about the Boy Who Lived.
Michael joined the Meetup team because he's interested in the interaction between on and offline life. Ask him about mobile, synthesizers, trees, and North Korea.
Scott lays awake at night dreaming about testing new features and ensuring their quality for the Meetup community. In his spare time, he dribbles around looking for new additions to his guitar collection.
Anne writes code for Meetup's backend. She is thankful for the existence of Squidwrench hackerspace. Her current emotion is probably excitement about computers.
Erin leads Human Resources at Meetup. She and her team are deeply committed to hiring the best and brightest in New York and making sure that our team is consistently challenged, engaged and growing professionally.
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.
Kara provides support to the Meetup community so that they can navigate the site and make their Meetups more successful. She'll most likely talk at you about The West Wing, Jane Austen, and/or your celebrity doppelganger.
Evan is uploading our personalities into the Internet so we can all look at funny pictures together forever, long after our bodies are gone. Until then, he'll be using machine learning to make Meetup's recommendations the best they can be.
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.
Wayne works behind the scenes to help make sure Meetup's systems are running smoothly.
Jen designs lovely and useful features that “just make sense” and take some of the hard parts out of meeting up. She’s from the internet, she’s obsessed with the future, and her spirit muppet is Fozzy Bear.
Caitlyn provides support to the Meetup Community, helping members and Organizers to make their Meetup experience the best it can be. You can normally find her in Brooklyn, drinking too much seltzer and trying to show strangers pictures of her cats.
Andres develops insight-informed strategies that help set the company's direction.
Alex helps with user research, with a focus on communication and connections within the Meetup community.
He's a big fan of the Internet, NYC and weird foods.
Todd works on making Meetup simple and obvious to everyone. He also enjoys listening to mildly scratchy records, and is slowly learning German, which is not yet simple or obvious.
Brian works on the back-end of Meetup. He's also a Co-Organizer of LispNYC, the New York City Lisp User Group. Brian likes computers, music, and combinations thereof.
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.
Jason helps develop and maintain Meetup's interface.
Hannah helps moderate member experience to make it meaningful and trustworthy.
Scott is Meetup's co-founder & CEO and focuses the team on our dream of a Meetup Everywhere about Most Everything (MEME). He co-founded the NY Tech Meetup and is organizer or member of lots of other meetups.
Kristin oversees the Communications team, helping us to tell the stories of Meetup Organizers and Members around the world. Kristin was a co-organizer of the Web Content Mavens Meetup in Washington, D.C. and goes to many Meetups in the NYC area.
Will helps build and maintain Meetup's front-end features.
Rich works on the back-end of the site, coding new features and maintaining existing ones. He is organizer of the Dashing Whippets.
Calvin works on Meetup's Android team.
Adaam works on the QA team to test Meetup's functionality and make sure everything runs smoothly for the Meetup Community.
He enjoys gardening, scrabble, and trivia...but in no particular order.
Byron loves building user interfaces and experiences to bring people closer together. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two cats.
Dan is a Machine Learning Engineer, working on the Data team.
David joined the Community Team because he is passionate about getting people together and making awesome things happen. When he is not at Meetup HQ you can find him on the roads of your favorite park.
Deirdre gets all excited about community organizing, so she's very happy to be a member of the Community team. When she's not answering your Meetup queries, she's probably discussing the hard-hitting topics like social justice issues, celebrity gossip, and where to get dinner.
Katie is eager to guide the Meetup community to smooth and enjoyable Meetup experiences. When she's not at Meetup HQ, you will most likely find her playing trivia, watching college basketball, or quoting Friends.
Matt helps develop and maintain Meetup's user interface. He enjoys long walks with his view camera.
Lydia is on the Community Team at Meetup where she's passionate about helping people connect in person. Out of the office, Lydia is on the US Fencing Team and loves to climb mountains.
Brian uses site data, customer research, benchmarks and experimentation to create strategies that will enable the future growth of Meetup. He organizes the NYC Beach Volleyball Meetup.
Laura works on the Community Team, helping to ensure that the site is an enjoyable adventure for all. When she's not at work, she schemes up furniture building projects and copes with her inability to properly eat sandwiches.
Arnaud helps the IT team in keeping Meetup servers up and running optimally. In his spare time he likes playing with cutting edge technologies, but also really enjoys music and traveling whenever possible. He is a member of New York City Storm User Group and The New York Python Meetup Group.
Juan enjoys helping Meetup members create positive, sustainable change in their communities so he is stoked to be part of the Community Team. When he’s not at Meetup HQ, you can find him exploring the city and its many coffee shops, watching Florida State football, or dancing along to his iPod while waiting for the subway.
Jake couldn't stay away after his summer internship, and has returned in full-force to making the back-end better, stronger, faster.
Chris works on the Meetup API in the effort to harness and empower the creativity of Meetup users wishing to innovate on the platform. He also likes functional programming, open source, and penny skateboards.
Nan is the data analyst intern on the Strategy team. She does data analysis and visualization to make data-driven decisions.
Daron spends time building and maintaining Meetup's back-end. He currently works on making donations and dues as painless as possible in order to create healthy and self-sustaining communities. When not sitting in front of a computer, Daron can either be found on the soccer field or stuffing his face in various eateries around New York.
Adam helps organizers fund successful Meetups through member payment. He found the world's best nanny via the Upper West Side Moms Meetup.
Victor wants to help Brazilians like himself get together, solve their problems and have some fun by using Meetup. He believes that it's a good way to build both better communities and a better Brazil. He is vegetarian, passionate about languages and an amateur singer songwriter.
Nora works to help grow the Meetup team and performs other HR related duties. She's also a Co-organizer of Working@Meetup.
Jenn helps Meetup communities thrive and grow by championing and facilitating trust and safety across the Meetup platform. She oversees the team that develops policies and enforcement measures to ensure Meetup is being used as intended. Her interests are pretty diverse and explorative, which is why she's part of over 20 Meetup Groups.
Liz cares about the members of the Meetup Community and spends her days providing support, encouragement, and motivation to help others get together offline! On her off time, she drinks biodynamic wines, hula hoops in the park, and reads non-fiction. She knows how hipster that sounds.
Gavin works on the QA Team to help ensure Meetup's functionality is awesome, enabling everyone to Meetup Everywhere about Most Everything.
Marc loves solving problems for Members and Organizers and helping to make their Meetup experiences great.
When he's not assisting the Meetup community, you can find him meeting new people while hiking the nearest trail.
Caroline helps build the magic that is the Meetup backend and therefore likes to think she's a wizard. She loves cooking multi-course meals, weird music, and, most importantly, shoulder dancing.
Josh works on Meetup’s core technologies, focusing on analytics infrastructure. He works to support Meetup’s mission of helping communities as they self-organize to build the power to change their world. Josh lives in Philly, is a member of the Philadelphia Area Scala Enthusiast Meetup, a creator of the open source geographic analysis library GeoTrellis, and loves to support social justice struggles with technology.
Dayna is excited to be part of the team here at Meetup! She is the administrative assistant who wears many hats. You can catch her on the weekends exploring the city, eating Oreos, and playing co-ed soccer.
Natalia collaborates with the Design team on creating digital experiences and visual designs for mobile and web. In her spare time, she enjoys running, doing imperfect hand-lettering, and cooking Mexican food.
Nicole supports Human Resources, working to bring awesome talent to the MEME team. When she's not at the office, you can find her learning languages, singing about what she is doing at the current moment, or speaking in weird voices.
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.
Andrea works with the Communications Team on outreach, education and engagement initiatives that celebrate, strengthen and broaden the community. Expect to hear from her if you're doing great things with your Meetup Group.
You'll find her chatting up the locals in your neighborhood, hosting Organizer Meetups, gardening and occasionally playing pinball. Her favorite machine is Theatre of Magic.Tilt!
Larry works on the back-end and strives to create the best experience possible for Members and Organizers.
Ann provides support to the Meetup community. She is constantly on the lookout for roast beef sandwiches, empanadas, and Game of Thrones fans.
Nicole joined the Trust and Safety team in hopes of making the Meetup experience fun, safe and enjoyable for all users. When not on the clock you'll find her binge watching Dateline, searching for the perfect slice of pizza or cuddling her Mini-Schnauzer, Dublin.
Oreo heads up the office maintenance team. He is dedicated to ensuring that the floors are clean and there isn’t a morsel left behind by the MEME team. When he’s not at Meetup HQ, Oreo can be found traipsing around the beach, swimming in ponds, or riding sidecar on a slick bike.
Erik works to make Meetup smarter and faster. In his free time he rides bikes, writes open source code, and plays loud music.
Coralie loves making friends around the world so she is excited to be developing the use of Meetup internationally. As a true epicurean you can find her traveling somewhere sunny, tasting a glass of wine and baking a cake (all at once).
David, aka Lawzilla, works with the business, community and development teams to crush the legal and business obstacles that come up as we strive towards a Meetup Everywhere About Most Everything.
Mike helps to get Meetup looking and feeling good across all platforms. In his spare time he enjoys printmaking, playing with synthesizers, and caring for reptiles.
Lev provides systems support for Meetup HQ. In his spare time, he likes to roll around on a board, enjoy a good brew, and tell people that 'Lev' is indeed not short for anything. He is also good at being tall.
Brandon likes to build new things, and keep them operating like clockwork. He remembers using a serial modem.
He is also a member of Docker New York City, New York Linux Users Group, and OpenStack New York.
Claudia works as Product Copywriter for the Italian language. She loves languages and cross-cultural communication and is thrilled to be part of the International Team. In her free time, you can find her running in Central Park, practicing yoga, buying hair styling products, or voraciously reading.
Laura keeps Meetup’s iOS app running smoothly. In her spare time, she can be found tinkering with robots, sitting in dog parks, and drinking bubble tea.
Erin is enthusiastic about making Meetup members and Organizers super happy. You can usually find her rocking out on stage with her sisters and/or reading plays aloud in the park. She has no idea what Shakespeare is saying, but that's part of the fun.
Jeremy helps support Meetup members so they can get together to accomplish great things. He’s thrilled to be part of the Community Team. In his spare time, he enjoys writing sketch comedy, taking candid photographs, and exploring various neighborhoods in New York.
Jake's biggest obsessions are making new friends and new memories. That's why he's so excited to help members find each other and do just that! When he's away from HQ, he's either telling stories or trying to fix his Kramer hair in some shop window somewhere.
Jose works on awesome stuff on the back end. He is a member of the Military Veterans in Tech Meetup.
Romy works on the Community Team helping new members create their dream Meetup groups while keeping current members happy. In her free time she enjoys going to shows, reading books, writing stories, traveling, and people watching.
It warms Pamela's heart to see Meetup members connecting and forming long-lasting communities across the globe. That's why Pamela loves providing friendly support to the Meetup community. Pamela's favorite pastimes include sitting in adirondack chairs with friends, wandering Prospect Park, and channeling her inner Coach Taylor. She has to hold back from using exclamation points.
Ryan assists with the general upkeep and awesomeness that is Meetup HQ. When not running around HQ, she enjoys reading comics, pawning off her photography to the general public and watching old episodes of Battlestar Galactica.
Will enjoys making everyone's life a little easier. He is always trying to come up with new innovative ways of ensuring a smooth operation. In his free time he enjoys photography, yoga and has a passion for film.
Samantha is all about community-building and works to ensure Meetup Groups are good-to-go. She is a self-proclaimed pun master, a firm believer of the Oxford comma, and constantly searching for the perfect cup of coffee.
Sadaf helps the UI team build the best web experience for all Meetup members by maintaining the current site and working on cool, new features.
Qing keeps the servers running smoothly and handles tech support for our staff.
Hakiem is excited to be a member of the Finance team, working to keep all of the accounts, accounted! In his spare time, Hakiem likes to play sports, spend time with friends and explore new areas of the World Famous New York City.
Mike helps develop Meetup's front-end. Outside of web development, he enjoys playing soccer, playing guitar and snowboarding.
Fiona is responsible for product, design and community.
Aashish is excited to joining Meetup's Data team as a Software Engineer. He enjoys playing ping pong, hiking, learning how to cook, and of course, playing with huge data sets.
Nick is a product designer working on how to build and strengthen relationships among Meetup members.
He wants to drink beer and eat pizza with you.
Kristen works on building the best possible experience for Meetup's members and Organizers. When she's not hip-deep in design, she likes to obsess over turtles, read sci-fi, and endlessly replay BioWare games.
Emily is super excited to be a member of the Community team here at Meetup. In her spare time, she loves talking about Drake, playing D&D;, hanging out with her two cats, and cooking insane amounts of food for friends.
Doug helps build out the web API and expose the platform to a community particularly close to his heart - the developer community.
Marina is very excited to be a part of the Community team here at Meetup. She spends most of her free time writing/performing sketch comedy at The PIT and The UCB, baking cookies, and watching Project Runway.
Trush is passionate about designing and launching great product experiences that bring people together. He's an avid fly fisher and founded the NYC Fly Fishing Meetup.
Ben provides support and customer service to the Meetup community. When not at work, he can be found chasing and retrieving used tennis balls, eating a mixture of dry and wet food out of bowls, and sleeping on the bed even though he's not supposed to.
Bryan makes community support his number one priority. When he's not at Meetup, he enjoys going to concerts, tattoos, NY Giants football, and a good pun.
Teresa makes sure new and existing Meetup features are running smoothly.
Andrew works with and supports Meetup's thriving community of Members and Organizers to help make their Groups successful.
In his free time Andrew enjoys drawing, over-analyzing the Knicks, and giving unlicensed haircuts.
Dana believes in the power of community and is thrilled to support the team as they build community with every interaction. She loves living in NYC and embraces the diverse opportunities it offers. Dana participates in her local community garden, eking out a few prized hearty beans and lopsided tomatoes each summer.
Maki is thrilled to be part of the Community team, and enjoys guiding and supporting Meetup organizers and members. She likes pickles, paper crafts, polka dots, and alliteration.
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.
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.
Di-Ann Eisnor, VP Platform & Partnership runs US operations and is crafting the cartography of "live mapping" for Israeli crowd-sourced navigation and real-time traffic start-up, Waze.
Di-Ann is a neogeography pioneer and serial entrepreneur employing all means to increase the world's citizen mappers.
Prior to Waze, Di-Ann was Co-Founder and CEO of Platial, a widely adopted mobile and online social mapping service funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Ram Shriram and others. Di-Ann holds a BS in Studio Art and Business Administration from New York University.
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 is Meetup's co-founder & CEO and focuses the team on our dream of a Meetup Everywhere about Most Everything (MEME). He co-founded the NY Tech Meetup and is organizer or member of lots of other meetups.
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.
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.
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
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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.
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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