Brian Meshkin graduated from Glenelg High School in 1994, and went on to University of Maryland, College Park, where he began a course of study that would make him arguably one of America’s most impressive young entrepreneurs. After just three years of study there, including Advanced Placement classes, he obtained his Bachelors Degree in Government and Politics and General Business in 1997.
He went on to serve as a Sales Representative for Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceuticals; co-founded with his brother, and was the co-CEO of, Surfbuzz.com; served as a Group Manager and Associate Director of Marketing at Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., and was founding President of nutrigenomics company Salugen, Inc., just to name a few accomplishments. He is also a former adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at Howard County Community College, and former Independent Consultant and Investor at Meshkin Ventures. In December 2009, he founded his own Personalized Pain Medicine lab, Proove Biosciences, Inc., and is currently the President.
In December 2010 he took on another venture very different than his usual and ran for Howard County Board of Education. He was the youngest person, and first Asian-American, to ever be elected. Despite this particular venture being seemingly out of his ordinary course of business, the cause is near to his heart, as he grew up in Western Howard County and still lives there with his wife and their three children. His passion for community service began at a very young age, just thirteen when a schoolmate and friend on a bicycle was killed in front of his home after being struck by a vehicle while not wearing a helmet. He took the initiative and led a student movement to getting the United State’s first Child Bicycle Helmet Law implemented. He went on to have over three hundred similar laws passed.
Brian Meshkin is a very driven, savvy entrepreneur with over ten years experience of introducing new technology to the health care industry and researching the benefits of personalized medicine. He has won numerous awards and has authored fifteen publications. Furthermore, he is an enthusiastic and respected pillar of his community, using his elected position on the Howard County Board of Education to expand digital learning and emphasize personalized education.