Host of the Glen Meakem Radio Program and Managing Director of Meakem Becker Venture Capital

Glen Meakem has earned a national reputation as a new economy innovator and leader – first as co-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of FreeMarkets, Inc., and more recently as co-founder and Managing Director of Meakem Becker Venture Capital. FreeMarkets was a leading business-to-business Internet company which helped Global 2000 companies save money by automating and improving their purchasing functions. Glen co-founded the company in 1995, took it public in 1999, and sold it to Ariba, Inc. in 2004. Meakem Becker Venture Capital is a leading early-stage venture capital firm which was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in the Pittsburgh area. The firm focuses on helping to build new, technology-enabled product and service companies.

One of the keys to Glen’s success as an entrepreneur has been his adherence to a strict code of personal and professional ethics, and an ability to build strong teams of like minded individuals.

Glen gained early business experience working in professional positions for Kraft Foods, McKinsey & Company, and General Electric. Early in his career, Glen also served as an officer in the United States Army Reserve, volunteering and serving as a combat engineer platoon leader in the 1991 Gulf War. Glen graduated A.B. cum laude from Harvard University in 1986 and later earned his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Glen is a loyal Pittsburgher and Pennsylvanian. He enjoys studying and talking about entrepreneurship, economics and politics. He launched The Glen Meakem Radio Program in 2007 to talk with a broad audience about the changes needed to make Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania healthy, growing places.

Glen and his wife, Diane, have been married for eighteen years. The Meakems have five children.