Jay Meattle

Shareaholic

If you use sites like Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Google Gmail, Delicious, Tumblr, etc you'll love having Shareaholic by your side. Shareaholic is the ultimate tool for the link sharing addict!

• Startup type: Company
• Status: Active
• Stage: Growth

Jay is the creator of Shareaholic, an award winning service that has been used by over 800,000 people.

Before Shareaholic, Jay oversaw the design, creation and improvement of all products at Lookery, an online user‐targeting network offering lightweight, economical targeting data for over 50 million users.

Previously, Jay was the Product Manager and founding member of the small team that was responsible for creating Compete.com, now part of WPP [Nasdaq:WPP]. Before managing Compete.com, Jay was part of Compete’s client services group where he worked with companies such as Bank of America, Experian Interactive, Microsoft, and Yahoo!, helping them analyze and gain better insights from online consumer behavior.

In 2008, he co-founded POPSignal, an effort to bring together and rally the tech and startup community of Boston. POPSignal holds quarterly parties for over 500 people that typically sell out in under 48 hours, and smaller more frequent intimate invite-only meetups.

Jay earned a B.S. cum laude in Computer Science from Tufts University. He also minored in Entrepreneurial Leadership and Multimedia Arts. At Tufts he was awarded the MacJannet scholarship. He loves creating, lives for technology and innovation, and likes making things happen.