Julie Meyer

Founder and CEO, Ariadne Capital

Ms. Meyer has 17 years of experience with high-growth technology businesses in Europe and the United States, bringing to life industry standards and mobilising a generation around the promise of pan-European, Internet-enabled businesses. Ariadne Capital (www.ariadnecapital.com),her fourth venture for which she is the seed investor and chief executive, is a global investment and advisory firm, which invests in early stage private companies and advises later stage private and public companies undergoing significant growth or change. As Chief Executive, she is responsible for the overall general and financial management of the firm. In 1998, Ms. Meyer established First Tuesday, the largest global network of entrepreneurs, which ignited the Internet generation in Europe. She drove the expansion of First Tuesday to 100+ cities and 500,000 registered users worldwide- with no marketing spend. First Tuesday was sold for $50 million in July 2000 to Jerusalem Global Ventures. Named a “Global Leader of Tomorrow” by the World Economic Forum, Ms. Meyer was awarded Entrepreneur of the Year Award in October 2000 by Ernst & Young U.K., has raised more than $100 million of capital for start-upsin Europe [lastminute.com, ArcCores, WGSN] in addition to overseeing the documented $150 million of seed capital found for start-ups through First Tuesday. Ms. Meyer earned an MBA from INSEAD and a BA degree from Valparaiso University.