About

EuroCircle started in 1999 as an informal community for European professionals & Europhiles – married or single – and now has grown to more than 100,000 members. With no political, religious or ethnic affiliations, EuroCircle is a place where you can exchange ideas, tips, professional contacts, make friends and more. You can meet people offline at local events or online through the membership features. EuroCircle was a social network before Facebook or the term social network had even been invented. After more than 10 years and thousands of events in hundreds of cities, EuroCircle now welcomes and attracts professionals and expats from all over the globe, from London to Los Angeles or New York to Johannesburg.

Our History

EuroCircle originated as one woman’s dream. Finnish lawyer Kaisa Kokkonen came to New York in 1992 feeling burnt-out and somewhat bored after a ten-year legal career. But it took a while before she decided to stay for good. “I began assimilating to New York life a year and a half after my arrival, only after I finally decided to stay in the US” Kaisa recalls. The internet was still in its infancy.

Kaisa began contemplating some kind of informal group for European professionals and at the same time started playing with different names for the group. She wanted to come up with a name that was original and fresh. Eric Faltraco, another good friend of hers, also an American, was her confidant, the bouncing wall and the good-natured critic. One time Kaisa called him excitedly: “What do you think of EuroCircle?” Eric thought for a moment and said, “I like it. It just might work.” And that is how EuroCircle was conceived on paper 1997. Of course, it took her another couple of years (Jan 11 1999 was the first event in New York City) to actually do something about it but the rest is history… which includes lots of wasted money and effort when people took advantage of her non-existing internet knowledge at the beginning. Since then many companies and individual groups have copied EuroCircle in one form or another but never managed to get the concept right.

You also find EuroCircle on Facebook under groups (EuroCircle New York, EuroCircle Los Angeles, EuroCircle Chicago, EuroCircle Atlanta, San Francisco, London etc) as well as on Youtube and Twitter.

Our Teams



Kaisa Kokkonen Founder & President	Christophe Rouchon Marketing Director & Business Development

Americas
Atlanta Randall Valverde	Austin Kaisa Kokkonen	Boston Burak Bacioglu	Chicago Maria Dollas	Houston Mary Beth Snodgrass	Los Angeles Dina Gontar	Miami Gabriele Trappio


Miami Gian Sol	New York Julia Quinn	New York Alexandra Spirer	Orange County Herve Duboscq	Philadelphia Sherry Kumar	Phoenix Jeff Jessup	San Diego Minette Bonner


San Francisco Marc James de Jong	Silicon Valley Layla Sabourian	Washington DC (open position)


Europe
Barcelona Sarah Allibone	Brussels Oscar Karekezi	Budapest Bence Kutrik	Helsinki Marjo Benavides	London (open position)	Madrid Cesar Parra	Milan Giovanni Terzi


Munich Oktavia Weidmann	Paris Claude Chapron	Rome (open position)	Vienna Ursula Weixlbaumer	Vienna Tom Lepere


Eurasia & Middle East				Africa
Istanbul Alan Greenhalgh				Johannesburg Felicity Hudson	Johannesburg Periklis Thivaios


Come and join us and run a EuroCircle chapter in your own city
	Would you like to start EuroCircle in your own city or join a current team? its free and easy, just contact us for more information. We are always looking for new people to expand into new cities all around the world.