Marc Meyer
VC, Entrepreneur, CEO/CTO
Managing Director, Persefon, LLC marc@marcmeyer.com www.marcmeyer.com +1(650) 218-4095 1000 Chestnut St. San Francisco California 94109
Managing Director, Persefon, LLC marc@marcmeyer.com www.marcmeyer.com +1(650) 218-4095 1000 Chestnut St. San Francisco California 94109
Software Ventures Executive/Founder.
Serial entrepreneur in enterprise and consumer internet software,
with expertise in technology, product development, operations, and management.
Background in computer science and systems' architecture research, and
over 25 years experience creating, managing, and selling service
and product-based software companies in the U.S. and internationally.
Specialties
Management, including strategic, business, product, technical,
financial. Budgeting, business planning and forecasting.
Presenting, evangelizing, leading, consensus building.
Software and web technology, product ideation and development, computer architecture and algorithms.
Key Highlights
Consumer Internet: Co-founded, built and sold
Activeweave, Inc.
As Chief Executive Officer at Activeweave,
led the company from initial conception, funding and product development, through acquisition.
Formulated Activeweave's
products and patented the technology powering them; raised two rounds of financing.
Drove business operations and technology growing Activeweave's
BlogRovR
service to over 1M downloads, 300,000 registered users, 10M+ daily searches, one of the four top
sources for feed based subscribers for blogs,
and one of 25
Mozilla recommended Firefox add-ons.
Negotiated and managed the acquisition of Activeweave by BuzzLogic.
Developed relationships in the venture capital and
web 2.0 communities to further
financing, evangelization, press, partnerships, marketing, technology and traction.
As founder of Hipdine, performed feasibility planning, patenting, and partnerships for, a mobile, location-aware just-in-time service for discounted restaurant bookings.
As founder of Hipdine, performed feasibility planning, patenting, and partnerships for, a mobile, location-aware just-in-time service for discounted restaurant bookings.
Internet Advertising: Led Product Roadmap and Strategy for the creation
of BuzzLogic's Conversation Ad Network.
Staffed and led the Product organization
for BuzzLogic's advertising platform and related offerings and technologies.
Enterprise Software and Services: Founder/founding member
Tibco,
Software Design Studio,
MAR Associates.
President of Software Design Studio: built a consultancy to
the Engineering Design Automation industry to 11 people and $2.5M in yearly revenues.
Principal Architect, Director and founding member Tibco (TIBX): led the architecture and deployment of Tibco's first commercialized product, the world's first digital securities trading floor.
As founder of MAR Associates built, operated, and sold a software firm with operations in the US and Italy specializing in user-interfaces, early window systems, and licensing and encryption technologies.
Principal Architect, Director and founding member Tibco (TIBX): led the architecture and deployment of Tibco's first commercialized product, the world's first digital securities trading floor.
As founder of MAR Associates built, operated, and sold a software firm with operations in the US and Italy specializing in user-interfaces, early window systems, and licensing and encryption technologies.
Leadership: Created companies, staffed, trained and inspired development teams. Evangelized corporation-wide programs.
Strong record of assembling, coaching and inspiring teams since 1983.
Created, promoted, and managed multi-year, cross-business-unit roadmaps for technological evolution driving both architecture, business case, and stakeholder coordination.
Created, promoted, and managed multi-year, cross-business-unit roadmaps for technological evolution driving both architecture, business case, and stakeholder coordination.
Vision: Track record of
inventing, designing and marketing products and services.
Over twenty years experience envisioning and delivering novel solutions to existing business needs,
driving concensus and facilitating communication between business, technical, and management interests and
personnel.
Engineering: Hands on and supervisory responsibilities for technology deployments.
My experience marries over twenty years of leadership and building substantial software
systems in the areas of web and consumer internet technologies, financial systems,
databases, security, distributed and scalable systems, with a substantial academic foundation in computer systems and
architectures research (at Xerox PARC, DEC Research, Olivetti Research, and Interval Research),
and bottom-line responsibility over business operations.
Recent Professional Experience
Persefon Ventures, LLC.
Managing Director
Persefon Ventures,
is a seed and early stage venture fund focused on consumer, social, and enterprise software and services.
Our preference is for services with a quantifiable and existing target market, which can be addressed in short order with novel technology and approaches, and which can begin to be monetized and proved out without depending on market domination.
As advisors and board members, we take an uncommonly active role in overseeing strategy, technology, and corporate development.
At Persefon, I get to meet brilliant and motivated entrepreneurs to evaluate fit with our investing style.
With some, I have the opportunity to advise and direct them, and lead or participate in funding to take companies
from early concept to first product and market penetration.
I also work with limited partners, high-net worth individuals and angel investors, to define investment goals and parameters, and manage and deploy their capital across rigorously selected early stage ventures.
I also work with limited partners, high-net worth individuals and angel investors, to define investment goals and parameters, and manage and deploy their capital across rigorously selected early stage ventures.
Apr. 2008 - Jan. 2009
San Francisco, California
buzzlogic.com
buzzlogic.com
BuzzLogic, Inc.
Senior Vice President of Product
BuzzLogic,
provides a premium display ad network to hyper-targets
influential blog authors and the neighbor network of sites surrounding them to power
high-performance, cost-effective campaigns for our advertiser clients.
BuzzLogic's Insights product, on which the advertising network is based, is a search-based conversational
influence analisys and monitoring technology.
At BuzzLogic I was in charge of Product Roadmap, Strategy, and, with the CTO,
Architecture for our family of search, web analysis, and advertising solutions.
Initiatives which I led put into place acquistion and pricing stategies for the creation of the BuzzLogic's Conversation Ad Network, architecture of the Blog Search Engine underpinning Insights and the Conversation Ad Network, the specifications and design for automation of the Advertising, Ad Trafficking and reporting platforms, and a conversational/social widget advertising product.
Initiatives which I led put into place acquistion and pricing stategies for the creation of the BuzzLogic's Conversation Ad Network, architecture of the Blog Search Engine underpinning Insights and the Conversation Ad Network, the specifications and design for automation of the Advertising, Ad Trafficking and reporting platforms, and a conversational/social widget advertising product.
Jun. 2005 - Apr. 2008
Activeweave, Inc.
Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder
Activeweave,
a web 2.0 startup,
lets users browse smarter: its patent-pending, always-on, personalized relevance engine,
coupled with its browser add-on, delivers
a contextual overlay straight into the browser in real-time, wherever on the web users navigate.
Its services bring to the current page related information from personally-chosen sources.
Activeweave also helps realize the potential of an enhanced, social web using new browser metaphors to empower individuals to share commentary among their social groups. Activeweave is making the web more participatory, breaking the boundaries between the pages browsed and the relevant context about those pages. In the words of others: Erick Schonfeld in Business 2.0, Mike Arrington on Techcrunch, etc.
Activeweave also helps realize the potential of an enhanced, social web using new browser metaphors to empower individuals to share commentary among their social groups. Activeweave is making the web more participatory, breaking the boundaries between the pages browsed and the relevant context about those pages. In the words of others: Erick Schonfeld in Business 2.0, Mike Arrington on Techcrunch, etc.
As CEO and one of the two main contributors to Activeweave, my responsibilities span
a wide gamut of functions, including business and marketing operations,
finance, product, business, and corporate strategy.
Operational responsibilities included raising financing, staffing, contractual and legal negotiations with funders, employees, partners, and vendors. Product-oriented responsibilities include product specification, design, and affordances, architecture and algorithms, and community and public relations.
Operational responsibilities included raising financing, staffing, contractual and legal negotiations with funders, employees, partners, and vendors. Product-oriented responsibilities include product specification, design, and affordances, architecture and algorithms, and community and public relations.
Prior Experience
1977 - 2004
1977 - 2004
Dec. 2002 - Jun. 2004
Boulder, Colorado
Physics Education Research, CU Boulder
Physics Education Research, CU Boulder
CU Boulder, Physics Department
Invited Member, PER Group
Under Prof. Noah Finkelstein and Prof. Carl Weiman (Physics Nobel 2001), the Physics Education
Research program at the University of Colorado at Boulder
is one of the newest and largest research programs in PER in the nation.
Participant in a research group developing and studying uses of technology in physics education,
assessments, theoretical models of students learning physics,
social and contextual foundations of student learning,
examination of successful educational reforms and student problem-solving in physics.
1991 - 2001
Woodside, California
Software Design Studio (SDS)
President
Founded SDS in 1991 for my own consulting operations, and grew it over 10 years to 11 people and
yearly revenues of $2.5M.
Responsible for marketing and finding clients for high-end consulting services, staffing,
requirements and functional specifications of work,
and architecting projects.
Major clients included: DEC, Interval, Systems Science, and Synopys.
Major clients included: DEC, Interval, Systems Science, and Synopys.
1998 - 2001
Sunnyvale, California
synopsys.com
synopsys.com
Synopsys/SDS
Consultant, Architect and Technical Lead, Common Licensing Project
Architect and technical leader for a 15 million dollar, 85-person, project sponsored by Synopsys'
CFO and CIO to unite and standardize licensing practices across
all divisions of Synopsys. The project resulted in the deployment of new
licensing technology in all Synopsys products, as well as new
license fulfillment and order management processes throughout the company.
Mr. Meyer is receiving a patent on technology resulting from this work.
Directly responsible for staffing and managing a 15 person group implementing licensing software and APIs as well as relations and negotiations with all Synopsys business units, requirements and specifications determination and getting buy-in from individual business units.
Directly responsible for staffing and managing a 15 person group implementing licensing software and APIs as well as relations and negotiations with all Synopsys business units, requirements and specifications determination and getting buy-in from individual business units.
1998 - 1999
San Francisco, CA
Pinpoint Golf Media
Board Member
Pinpoint marketed and sold outdoor advertising at golf properties
across the country.
Actively assisted in the organization and funding of Pinpoint Golf Media and was a board member from
its inception in 1998 to mid 1999.
Participated in planning and structuring funding, strategies for acquisition of member properties and
identification of business opportunities.
1997
Palo Alto, California
Systems Sciences, Inc. (acquired by Synopsys)/SDS
Consultant
Specified and implemented the highest performing
and compressing, real-time, hardware design simulation signal database
for Engineering Design Automation.
Created custom algorithms for compressing and indexing multi-gigabyte datasets.
1993 - 1994, 1996
Palo Alto, California
Interval Corporation/SDS
Consultant, Robotic Vision Project
Interval was Paul Allen's multi-media thinktank, led by David Liddel, modeled on PARC,
with a mission of pioneering interface and media technologies of the future.
Created the multi-processor system infrastructure for a parallel computing system and
language for use in real-time robotic vision research. Based on Solaris in '93-'94,
adapted in '96 to Win32-based multi-processing platforms.
1991 - 1993
Palo Alto, California
DEC Western Research Laboratory
DEC Western Systems Laboratory
DEC Western Research Laboratory
DEC Western Systems Laboratory
Digital Equipment Corporation/SDS
Consultant, Configuration Management and Build Systems
Digital equipment at the time was the second largest computer company after IBM,
counting 130,000 employees.
Led team from SDS and DEC in the specification and implementation of a
software development environment configuration and build management system much like
today�s Rational ClearCase. The resulting system was used worldwide in the development
release of DEC's X11 and Utrix product lines.
1988 - 1991
Teknekron Software Systems (later Tibco)
Principal Architect and Director of Electronic Trading Systems
TSS pioneered electronic trading systems for Wall St.
TSS was sold to Reuters, renamed Tibco, and subsequently IPO'ed.
Architected and led the technical team responsible for implementation of Tibco's
flagship electronic trading product and all its software components.
Led the installation of the world's first digital trading floow, a multi-hundred
Sun workstation-based, redundant and fault tolerant digital trading floor for
fixed income for Fidelity Management Company in Boston.
Specified and implemented user-interface, real-time spreadsheet,
networking, fault tolerance and redundancy software, and publish/subscribe servers.
1983 - 1988
Woodside, California
Pisa, Torino, Italy
Pisa, Torino, Italy
MAR Associates
President
Founded and operated MAR Associates, a software consultancy specializing in user-interfaces,
programming environments, licensing, and security technology.
Sold MAR in 1988 to LPS, one of our principal clients.
Clients included: Netscape, SUN, Oracle, LPS, Plantronics, Reltech (later Ingres), Olivetti, HP, Systems and Management of Pisa, Olivetti Advanced Research Labs.
Products included a database-backed reporting system, the first visual editor for database data,
an operating systems level window system, the first multi-threaded browser,
a forms system licensed by Olivetti for use in all European ATMs,
a software licensing and encryption manager.
1980 - 1982
Palo Alto, California
Xerox Parc
Researcher, databases and languages, Smalltalk-80 group
PARC was the undisputed top computer technology think tank of its time.
As a member of the Smalltalk-80 group implemented research systems for database facilities,
graphical database query languages and affordances, and an early hypertext,
programming-by-example driven, personal information network.
Authored a PARC Report: PIN-A Personal Information Network, Xerox PARC 1982.
1978-1980
Berkeley, California
Project Ingres, UC Berkeley
Research Assistant
Ingres (Stonebraker/Wong), and System R at IBM were the first pioneering relational
database systems.
Designed and implemented components of the Ingres DBMS, including: access methods, EQUEL an
embedded query language pre-processor and runtime for C, CEQUEL, a version supporting a
dynamic query compiler, the relational "view" system.
Implemented operating system level lock-managers for the DBMS, as well as early networking code.
Implemented real-time multi-person communications protocols and the first Unix-based multi-player game, a version of Parc's MazeWars.
1977
Berkeley, California
Engineering Research Laboratory, UC Berkeley
Engineering Research Laboratory, UC Berkeley
Engineering Research Laboratory, UC Berkeley
Senior Programmer
Designed and implemented the ERL departmental payroll and accounting system in C under the Ingres DBMS, on Unix version 6, on a DEC 11/70.
Education
Dec. 1980 - Jun. 1982
Berkeley, California
UC Berkeley, EECS
Masters of Science, Computer Science
GPA: 4.0/4.0. Research Thesis: PIN, A Personal Information Network, in conjunction with the Smalltalk group at XEROX Parc. Emphases: Database Systems, Computer Graphics, Computer Languages.
Apr. 1976 - Dec. 1980
Berkeley, California
UC Berkeley, EECS
BS, Computer Science, minors in Zoology and History of Science
Major GPA: 4.0/4.0 - Emphasis on Systems and Languages, Operating Systems, Database Systems.
Research Assistant Engineering Research Lab '77, Research Assistant Project Ingres 78-80.
Mar. 1972 - Dec. 1975
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Escuela Nacional Nicolás Avellaneda
Bachillér
Secondary school, emphasis on Sciences.
Summary Of Technical Skills and Expertise
Technology
Programming
Expert Programming, Internet, Protocols and Core Computer Science Skills.
Expertise in C, C++, Perl, Unix tools.
Familiarity with Java, JSP, JavaScript, and a wide variety of Web open source initiatives.
Expertise in Unix internals, Microsoft Win32.
Expertise in C, C++, Perl, Unix tools.
Familiarity with Java, JSP, JavaScript, and a wide variety of Web open source initiatives.
Expertise in Unix internals, Microsoft Win32.
Concepts
Object Oriented architecture, development and programming
parallel and distributed computing.
Algorithms, Data Structures.
Algorithms, Data Structures.
Patents
Annotated Overlay Patent Pending:
Polymorphic always-on personalized relevance overlay architecture;
Languages
English (Native),
Spanish (Native),
Italian (Fluent),
Portuguese (Intermediate).
French (Adv. Beginner).
