Jen van der Meer is Chief Strategy Officer at Luminary Labs, where she consults with Fortune 100 companies, and Managing Member of Luminary Labs Ventures, where she invests in startups at the intersection of open data and accountable health care. A former Wall Street Analyst and Economist, Jen has held executive management roles at Organic and Frog Design.
Prior to Luminary Labs, Jen was at Dachis Group, a data-driven strategy consulting and software company, where she served as EVP Managing Director, overseeing demand generation, client service, strategy consulting, and experience design and delivery. She was previously a partner at Drillteam where she developed innovation crowdsourcing programs for companies such as Target, Toyota, Nestle, and Neiman Marcus, earning the first social media programs in the industry. Jen organized the acquisition of Drillteam to Powered, Inc. in 2010, which was then merged into Dachis Group in 2011.
Jen is actively engaged in the local startup community in New York City, and is an active supporter of the open data movement. She is an Adjunct Professor at NYU ITP, where she runs the VC Pitchfest and teaches LeanLaunchpad, and also teaches at SVA’s Products of Design. She writes and speaks on the topic of strategy in a data-driven age, entrepreneurship, design thinking, and social capital.
Jen has a BA in comparative religion from Trinity College, and an MBA from HEC in Paris.
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