Joe Meyer is the President and CEO of HopStop, a leading location-based service that provides mobile transit-routing and pedestrian navigation in 62 major metropolitan markets throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe.Prior to HopStop, Mr. Meyer was a Vice President and General Manager for AOL's Quigo Technologies. At Quigo, a leading contextual ad network that was acquired by AOL in late 2007 for $376 Million, Mr. Meyer was responsible for on-boarding and managing exclusive partnerships with hundreds of leading online publishers including Time Inc., ABC News, CareerBuilder, ESPN, Forbes, FoxNews, USA Today, Fodor's and several other top digital media companies.
Before Quigo, Mr. Meyer was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) for Onset Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. Earlier in his career, Mr. Meyer was a General Manager at eBay where he launched eBay's inaugural co-op advertising program, and managed several large product categories for the e-commerce leader including Collectibles and Sporting Goods.
In addition to his responsibilities at HopStop, Mr. Meyer was most recently an adviser to Adtuitive (acquired by Etsy), and was on the Board of Directors for Kalexo (acquired by Autodesk) and Belief Networks (acquired by BenefitFocus); and is currently on the Board of Advisors for Snooth/Lot18 and Spongecell. Mr. Meyer lives in Mamaroneck, NY with his wife and four children, and earned a BA degree from Georgetown University and an MBA from Wharton.
