• International Conference Speaker on Technology & Innovation & Entrepreneurship.
• An authority on how digital business models are transforming the world, and how entrepreneurship is changing the world.
• Award Winning Founder of Ariadne Capital, EntrepreneurCountry and the Co-Founder of First Tuesday.

Julie Meyer is a leading investor and entrepreneur in Europe and a regular conference speaker on these subjects. With over 20 years of experience in investment and the advisory sector of business, she has helped various start-ups to establish their business identity. She is a passionate entrepreneur who is on a mission to take the UK and Europe out of recession and its after effects using a growth strategy that involves supporting individual capitalism. She trusts people’s ingenuity to solve the world’s problems at both the macro and micro levels which will expand prosperity.

Julie Meyer has had a wonderful career right from the beginning. Julie grew up in Silicon Valley and was a consultant with Hewlett Packard, 3Com, and Motorola before she founded First Tuesday in Europe in 1998. First Tuesday was a  network of entrepreneurs which many credit for igniting the internet generation in Europe. It was sold in July 2000 for $50 million in cash and shares. She then founded Ariadne Capital in August 2000 to create a new model for the financing of entrepreneurship in Europe and the UK: that of ‘Entrepreneurs Backing Entrepreneurs’. She created the founding Investor Partnership of 62 leading entrepreneurs and business builders who are Ariadne Capital’s core shareholders. Ariadne Capital has backed 7 explosive growth companies in its first 13 years that include; Espotting, Skype, Monitise, SpinVox, Zopa, BeatThatQuote and SoundOut.

Julie has been awarded an MBE (Member of the British Empire) by the British Government for Services to Entrepreneurship. She has been named one of INSEAD’s Top 50 Alumni, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, World Economic Forum Global Leader of Tomorrow, one of the TIME Magazine Digital 50, one of WIRED’s 100, one of London’s 1000 Most Influential People 2010 & 2011 (Evening Standard), one of the Top 30 Most Influential Women in Europe by the Wall Street Journal, Europe, and one of Brummell Magazine’s 30 Inspirational Women 2014.

She is on the Board of Directors of Vestergaard Frandsen, a for-profit humanitarian development firm, and INSEAD, her former business school, which named her one of their 50 Alumni Who Changed the World. The University of Warwick gave her an Honorary Doctorate of Laws in 2014.
Julie’s first book ‘Welcome to Entrepreneur Country’ was published in June 2012, and won several awards, receiving positive reviews. She has a regular column in Forbes, and has a blog on the LinkedIn Influencer Program here.