In 2004, Anthony E. Meyer co-founded Extend Health, Inc., the leading provider of defined contribution healthcare programs to active and retired employees of leading corporations nationwide.
Anthony E. Meyer is the Co-Founder of The American Academy, Inc. (aka NoDropouts.org), a leading alternative education services company.
Anthony E. Meyer, 50, is a New York City-based entrepreneur, private investor and philanthropist. He is the President of Ocean Road Advisors, Inc. (www.oceanroadadvisors.com), a privately-held “family office” investment management company he founded in 2005 that manages a diversified investment portfolio of public and private securities, hedge funds, real estate and venture capital on behalf of several New York families. He also serves as the Chairman of privately-held Meyer and Co., LLC (www.meyerandco.com), a merchant banking firm founded in 2002 and based in New York City with satellite offices in Providence, Rhode Island and Salt Lake City, Utah.
As an entrepreneur, in 2007, Meyer co-founded The American Academy (TAA) (www.theamericanacademy.com), a fully-accredited online high school and educational services company. Founded as a public-private partnership with the State of Utah’s Electronic High School, TAA today serves high school-age and adult students who seek to continue and/or supplement their high school education and/or earn a high school diploma. TAA also offers a complete suite of accredited educational offerings to students beyond the reach of traditional high schools through its innovative and rapidly-expanding Dropout Recovery Program™ initiatives (www.NoDropouts.org), delivered in partnership with more than 50 public high schools districts nationwide. Previously, in 2004, Meyer co-founded Extend Health, Inc. (www.extendhealth.com), a leading health benefits management company, to serve Medicare-eligible retirees and their corporate sponsors. Extend Health, Inc. today operates the nation’s largest private Medicare exchange, and has helped more than 350,000 retirees find and choose the private Medicare plan that best meets their medical needs and budget. In 2011, Extend Health announced that it has partnered with Microsoft to build the state insurance exchanges required under recent healthcare reform, and in January, 2012, Extend Health filed with the SEC for its initial public offering.
From 1994 through 2001, Meyer was a Managing Director at Lazard Frères & Co. LLC, a leading global, private investment bank, where he was a founding partner of Lazard Frères Real Estate Investors LLC (LFREI), Lazard’s real estate investment management affiliate and the firm’s largest principal investment business. At LFREI, he served successively as Chief Investment Officer, Chief Operating Officer and President, International, on behalf of the firm’s $2.8 billion (equity) real estate private equity business. Prior to joining Lazard, from 1984 to 1993, Meyer was a General Partner of Trammell Crow Company, one of the largest diversified real estate companies in the U.S, where he co-founded Trammell Crow Ventures, Crow’s investment management affiliate. He later served as Trammell Crow Ventures’ Chief Investment Officer and led the $2.6 billion (equity) investment management company’s efforts in real estate, private equity and venture capital.
An active social entrepreneur, Meyer serves on the Board of Trustees for the City University of New York’s William E. Macaulay Honors College where he also serves as a CUNY Entrepreneur-in-Residence. In addition, he is a member of the Board of Governors of the American Jewish Committee, a Director of Dr. Mehmet Oz’s HealthCorps and a member of the Young President’s Organization. Meyer is also a Board member of the Geneva-based UN Watch and has also sponsored new social enterprises such as the Well Program of charity:water and the FDNY Foundation’s “Ready Room 24/7 Project.” He is former Chairman of the Board of Literacy Instruction for Texas (L.I.F.T.), former Vice Chairman of The World of Children Awards, and past Board member of the Young Leadership Cabinet of the United Jewish Appeal and The Educational Alliance. Meyer has also guest lectured in real estate, finance and entrepreneurship at post-secondary institutions including Stanford University, New York University and Southern Methodist University, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and roundtables on the subject of entrepreneurship.
Meyer graduated from Harvard College in 1982 as a John Harvard Scholar, with a magna cum laude degree in Economics, and received his MBA from Harvard Business School with honors in 1984.
He is married and lives in New York City with his wife and two daughters.
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