User:Anthony E (Tony) Meyer

Anthony Edward (Tony) Meyer (born June 29, 1961, in New York, NY) is an American entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He is Chairman and CEO of Meyer and Co. LLC, a private merchant bank with interests in real estate, venture capital and "entrepreneuring". He is also President of Ocean Road Advisors, Inc., a privately-held, family-office investment management company he founded that manages an investment portfolio of public and private equities, hedge funds, real estate and venture capital.

Previously, as an entrepreneur, Tony Meyer was the founder of The American Academy (TAA), an education services company that also operates a fully-accredited online private high school (2007) and Extend Health, Inc., a healthcare services company which operates the nation's largest Medicare exchange offering defined contribution healthcare solutions to Fortune 500 companies, public sector entities and their retirees (2004). (See Extend Health, Inc., The American Academy and Ocean Road Advisors, Inc. below). Prior to that, he was a Co-Founder of Trammell Crow Ventures (1984) and of Lazard Frères Real Estate Investors (1994).

As a citizen and philanthropist, Meyer serves on the Board of Trustees for the City University of New York’s William E. Macaulay Honors College and serves as its Entrepreneur-in-Residence. He also chairs the Board of Advisors for the Innovation zone of the New York City Department of Education. Meyer is also a member of the Board of Governors of the American Jewish Committee, a Director of Dr. Mehmet Oz’s HealthCorps, a member of the Young President’s Organization and a Director of the NGO, UNWatch. Previously, he served as a Board member of the Young Leadership Cabinet of the United Jewish Appeal and The Educational Alliance, and was a past Chairman of the Board of Literacy Instruction for Texas (L.I.F.T.). Meyer also served as Vice Chair of World of Children, which awards grants to individuals worldwide who impact the lives of children, and sponsored the Well Program of charity:water and the FDNY Foundation’s “Read Room 24/7 Project.”

He was born in New York City, the youngest of two children and only son of Edward H. Meyer and Sandra R. Meyer. His sister, Margaret A. Meyer, is a noted Professor of Economics at Nuffield College at Oxford University where she is recognized as one of the world’s leading game theorists. His father, Edward H. Meyer, is the retired Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Grey Global Group who served the company for 36 years and made Grey Global one of the world’s largest advertising and marketing agencies. He currently lives in New York City with his wife, Miraldina, and their two children.

Meyer graduated as a John Harvard Scholar, magna cum laude in Economics from Harvard College and received his MBA from Harvard Business School with honors in 1984.

Meyer lives in New York, New York with his wife Miraldina and his two daughters, Olivia and Victoria.