Who is Troy Meyer’s wife, Genevieve Sheehan?

GENEVIEVE Sheehan competed on Jeopardy! before she married champion Troy Meyer.

Now, game show fans want to know more about the former Jeopardy! contestant and her marriage.

Who is Genevieve Sheehan?

In the 1980s, Genevieve Sheehan emigrated from Ireland to Canada and then to the US with her family, per the .

They settled in Tampa, Florida, and "adopted the American pastime of watching 'Jeopardy!' together every evening."

According to her LinkedIn , she received her bachelor's degree in social studies from Harvard University, where she studied from 2001 to 2005.

She later earned her MBA with High Distinction from the Harvard Business School, graduating in the top 5% of her class in 2012.

Sheehan previously pursued a career in the finance industry.

According to her LinkedIn, she worked as a senior associate consultant and associate consultant for Bain & Company from September 2005 to August 2008, and as an associate in North American private equity for Bain Capital from September 2008 to August 2010.

From May to August 2011, she was a product manager intern for Zynga before working as the company's senior product manager from July 2012 to January 2014.

Sheehan then worked as the senior director of product management at Dropbox from January 2014 to May 2020 and as the vice president of settlement services at Snapdocs from April 2021 to April 2022.

Since June 2022, she has served as the vice president of product and the general manager of Confluence at Atlassian.

How did they meet?

Sheehan and Troy Meyer met through a Jeopardy! "invitation-only online fan site," when they were both 27 years old, per the New York Times.

According to Sheean, the site was for "like-minded addicts" of the hit television program.

Sheehan — an aspiring Jeopardy! contestant at the time — joined the site in early 2009, and Meyer "gradually noticed in Ms. Sheehan someone who, like himself, treasured knowledge for its own sake."