Todd McMeen

Member Profile
Todd McMeen

Todd McMeen

Joined : Jan 2, 2009

About Me
Personal Statement

I believe in leaving the forest better than I found it.  To paraphrase nonprofit Green Street Project board chair and Openhill director, Gerald Jenkins: in doing so, I know that I mostly help myself.

Places Worked
  • OneBlueWorld, Inc. (educational software company), founder/CEO, 1999 to 2002
  • Green Street Project (Chicago nonprofit), co-founder/executive director, 2003 to present
  • Openhill.com, CEO, January 2009 to present
Schools AttendedUniversity of Illinois, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Champaign-Urbana, BA 1997

Working At Openhill
My Role At OpenhillI co-founded Openhill and happily serve as its CEO.

Most of my time is spent collaborating with our partners, such as Chicago nonprofit Green Street Project, the City of Chicago, IBM and an interesting mix of beta customers to build websites.

My job is to take the lessons learned from building websites for customers ranging from the Chicago Police Department to Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. and make sure everyone who wants a website can affordably have one just as good.
Best Thing About Working At OpenhillWhile I treasure running Chicago nonprofit Green Street Project, the most measurable community impact I make is delivering practical value to Openhill customers.  I feel a great sense of satisfaction when small businesses, government agencies and community groups tell us they save thousands of dollars using our service.  I love learning from our customers and working alongside my brilliant, kind-hearted colleagues to make all this possible.
Where I see Openhill In Three YearsJust like people can use Gmail to set up their own, private email accounts, customers can use our service to set up and manage their own websites with the click of a mouse.  Three years from now, I envision Openhill as a premier service that continues to drive down the cost of owning and manging one's website.  And, I hope to keep scaling our infrastructure and partnerships so that we may offer our service to millions of customers.