Nassau Street Ventures Team

Bio: Tom Meyer is an experienced CEO and strategic consultant. Prior to becoming Managing Partner of Nassau Street Ventures and Senior Partner at Alumni Ventures Group, Tom was the Chief Operating Officer of OnePak, the leading reverse logistics software company and consultant to over 30 companies, advising on corporate development, sales and marketing, financing, strategic planning, and business transformation. Mr. Meyer has been CEO of three different tech companies, which he successfully turned around. As general manager, he launched Iron Mountain’s award-winning Digital Record Center. He brings a global perspective to business, having lived in Europe and Asia and worked in 40 countries around the globe. Mr. Meyer has an engineering degree from Princeton University and an MBA from the Yale School of Management. He is the former chair of the Princeton Entrepreneurs’ Network of Boston.
Notable Deals: Mapquest, Connotate

Bio: Josh is Executive Vice President at Alumni Ventures Group and Senior Partner at Nassau Street Ventures. He has had a long career in consumer goods and tech, including Google and Procter & Gamble, and Bose. He is deeply experienced in product innovation, go-to-market strategies, communications and advertising, CPG, traditional retail and e-commerce. Josh is also a former military officer, having served six years on active duty in the U.S. Army. Josh also founded Veterans Brands, a marketing strategy consultancy specializing in veteran-run SMBs, brands targeting veterans and active military, and authentic American brands. He holds a B.S.E in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton and a MBA from Harvard Business School.

Bio: Rika is an entrepreneur, investor, keynote speaker, and international consultant. She is currently the Principal of Eurika Global, where she works with clients – from Frotune 1000 to startups – to apply innovation in a way that is at once practical and transformative. She is also the CEO and Founder of BoardSeatMeet, Inc. an NPO focusing on gender-balancing corporate board rooms by empowering women to build and leverage social capital with modern technology – essentially delivering the “High-Performance Board Room of Tomorrow”. Trilingual in Japanese, German and English, Rika immigrated from Japan to attend Princeton University. Rika has since worked internationally over two decades in senior executive roles in strategy, business development, and marketing with Fortune 500 companies – NVIDIA, Sony, Accenture, American Express- and Silicon Valley startups. She is a technology industry veteran and serves on Advisory Boards to ventures in Next-gen Computing (VR/AR/MR) and Artificial Intelligence ecosystems. Throughout her career, Rika has been an avid advocate for advancing women’s leadership in technology and business across industry verticals and global lines. Rika is also the only woman on the Dean’s Council for Embry-Riddle Aeronautics University, where she addresses the matter of gender parity in STEM Higher Education. Rika is passionate about deepening intersection of the human, the digital, and the physical through the challenge of value-driven innovation and the reward of purpose-driven collaboration.

Bio: Elizabeth (PU ’19) is currently a software engineer at Two Sigma Investments in New York, working on their startup subsidiary, Two Sigma Insurance Quantified. Previously, she worked at Airbnb in San Francisco and was a 2018 Kleiner Perkins Fellow. Elizabeth received a Bachelor of Science and Engineering degree in Computer Science, with certificates in Finance and Latin American Studies from Princeton University. At Princeton, she was involved in directing HackPrinceton, Mock Trial, Figure Skating, and Chapel Choir.

Bio: Ned (P ’13) is an MBA candidate at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Previously, Ned spent three years with L.E.K. Consulting in the MedTech sector out of the Chicago office, executing due diligence and growth strategy engagements for Private Equity and Corporate MedTech clients. Ned also has manufacturing experience, having managed a production line at Procter & Gamble with a key role as a lead R&D line. Ned received his B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton in 2013.

Bio: Caroline is currently an MBA candidate at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to Wharton, she was at AQR Capital, a quantitative asset manager, in the Adviser Solutions Group where she advised clients on how to incorporate diversifying sources of return into their portfolios as well as improve their risk-return measures. Before this, Caroline started her career in fixed income trading at Citi, embracing her passion for markets by working in both Foreign Exchange and High Yield Municipal Debt. Caroline earned her bachelor’s degree in Economics from Princeton University.

Bio: Prior to joining AVG, Chris was a Customer Advocate at Graphic Packaging and in Sales & Marketing at Putnam Investments, where he created materials for reps and investors. He’s a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Manning School of Business, where he studied Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Studies.

Bio: Previously, Anne was an Applied Behavioral Analysis Counselor for Melmark and a medical biller for Physicians Resources. She is also a certified Certifiied Personal Trainer and Group Fitness Instructor, with her own clientele. Anne has a Bachelor’s in Psychology from the University of New Hampshire.

Bio: Previously, Anne was an Applied Behavioral Analysis Counselor for Melmark and a medical biller for Physicians Resources. She is also a certified Certifiied Personal Trainer and Group Fitness Instructor, with her own clientele. Anne has a Bachelor’s in Psychology from the University of New Hampshire.

Bio: Jamie was the Clinical Secretary Sr for Pediatric Gastroenterology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock. Earlier, he served as a Claims Processor Associate and then a Senior Associate at Cigna Health. He has also served in multiple church youth ministries for over 15 years throughout Ontario, Canada, in many different cultural contexts. He was part of the adjunct faculty in the youth ministry department at Tyndale University College. He has a BA in Psychology from York University, a Masters of Divinity from Tyndale Seminary, and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Fuller Theological Seminary.