About Us

The founder and CEO of meez, Josh Sharkey is an entrepreneur, chef, and restaurant operator with over 20 years of experience in the industry (Oceana, Tabla, Bouley, Cafe Gray). After more than a decade cooking in Michelin-starred restaurants, he opened Bark Hot Dogs in 2009, which earned numerous accolades in the fast casual space. Sharkey spent five years as the Chief Operating Officer of Aurify Brands (Melt Shop, The Little Beet, Little Beet Table, Fields Good Chicken, and Le Pain Quotidien) before launching meez to the public in late 2020 following over two years of development. During the pandemic, Sharkey used meez’s technology to create Recipes for Relief, an initiative that made interactive recipes available for purchase with 100% of proceeds going towards restaurant relief. Josh believes in building technology with domain empathy, ensuring software always conforms to how we operate, and fervently focusing on the finer details.

Marylee has spearheaded meez’s product development since January 2020, leading the release of features like filters, intelligent text entry, and automated nutrition and allergens, continually optimizing the platform and improving the user experience. Prior to coming on board, she built and led the R&D function at Maisonette from seed through Series B, overseeing the Product, Software Development, Infrastructure and Data Analytics teams. Before that, Marylee was a founding member and the head of Front End development at the OC3 organization within Oracle. She launched her career as a software engineer at web design and development firm Thanx Media.