Ruben Meiland
Product Executive, Entrepreneur, Investor, Advisor
Passion:
Building and scaling products and teams.
Email:
Favorite brands:
Nike, Ping, Puma, TaylorMade, Disney, Nintendo.
Music:
Electronic, techno, classical, singer/songwriter.
A Bit About Me
I'm a seasoned entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience building products that are used by millions of people globally. I have a strong drive drive to create and coach high performing, diverse teams that take ownership and laser-focus on solving actual problems. I love fostering a culture where excellence is the default but mistakes are needed to move fast and continuously learn.
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I've invested in over a dozen start- and scale-ups and try to bring more to the table that just capital. I love working with founders and entrepreneurs to bring their idea to life or scaling to the next level.
Work Experience
2020 - Now
2017 - 2020
2007 - 2017
Leadingcourses.com
Leading Courses connects a growing community of golfers to a worldwide growing number of golf courses. For the golf courses this means more (national and international) reach and revenue, valuable insights (trends / reviews) and opportunities for digital and e-commerce solutions.
Eventbrite
As VP of Product at Eventbrite, I was responsible for shaping the future of all products that are geared towards empowering event creators throughout the world to be more successful. This included shaping, defining and executing on the vision, strategy and roadmap for each product line. I managed a large, globally distributed team of product professionals ranging from PM 1s to Directors and Group Product Managers, who I helped to grow, excel and develop their career.
Ticketscript (acquired by Eventbrite)
Europe's leading multichannel ticketing platform offering a range of offline, web, mobile and social cloud-based ticket solutions. We enabled event organizers to sell over €100m of tickets annually and were named one of Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 businesses. Backed by FPE Capital and others, the business was successfully sold to Eventbrite (NYSE: EB) in 2017.
Investments / Advisory
TheyDo / Non-Executive Chairman of the Board
With TheyDo, designers, product teams, and marketeers can establish a workflow that helps them go from insights to implementation, to create customer-centric solutions.
Adventure Fund / Limited Partner
Limited Partner at Meta Fund, an Adventure Fund Adventure exclusively comprised of LPs who are founders and seasoned operators investing in early-stage start-ups.
Operator.Exchange / Investor
Operator Exchange is a group of angel investors who've founded or built fast-growing startups before.
VAS / Supervisory Board Member
VAS is the global market leader in connected farm management systems. As the operating system of choice for the most innovative dairies, VAS’ software and information solutions help collect and connect a farm’s data – from herd management records, to feed and nutrition records.
bookaball / Advisor
bookaball enables sports venues to maximize occupancy and increase revenues, by offering a state of the art booking system - built for the future!
Arches Capital / Investor
Arches Capital is a fast-growing group of business angels that is bridging the gap between Venture Capitalists and how angels operate today, by joining the best of both worlds for our members. Arches Capital invests in early stage startups and scale-ups.
Education
2020
Stanford University
Leading Innovation
Do you have what it takes to inspire people to practice—rather than just talk about—innovation? Professor Bob Sutton digs into the differences between leading innovation and managing routine work, reviews the hallmarks of skilled leaders with a special focus on staying in tune with the people you lead.
2020 - 2022
Reforge
Growth Series + Advanced Growth Strategy + Marketing Strategy
Reforge offers selective growth-focused programs for experienced professionals in marketing, product, data, and engineering. All programs are led by actual growth practitioners Brian Balfour (formerly VP of Growth @ HubSpot) and Andrew Chen (Growth @ Uber) and features top growth leaders from companies including Google, Dropbox, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Atlassian, Slack and others.
2019
Stanford University
The Power Of Stories To Fuel Innovation
A big idea is not enough. You need people to create it and people to buy into it. Your big idea needs a story. Stories fuel innovation. They hold the power to transform listeners; to take listeners on a journey that changes how they think, feel or act.