Rob Runett
Partner at Motley Fool Ventures
Washington DC-Baltimore Area
Overview
Work Experience
Investor Committee and Organizer
2025 - Current
Participate in mentoring sessions, pitch competition applicant reviews/selection, and event organization. Agora connects exceptional DC-area female founders with members of the venture community.
Partner, Motley Fool Ventures
2021
Founding team member of Motley Fool Ventures and Fund I in 2018. Operations, deal flow, founder support, and investing.
Member, Vinetta Venture Committee
2016 - 2020
Participate in the Washington, DC, chapter of The Vinetta Project. Contribute to Vinetta's efforts to identify outstanding female founders as a judge for the annual Vinetta Challenge.
Co-Chair, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Committee
2016 - 2018
Co-lead a committee of Motley Fool employees who are passionate about improving diversity, inclusion, and belonging within the company and in our community.
Lead Project Manager, Next Adventures
2015 - 2017
Prioritize, assess and develop new products and services in collaboration with The Motley Fool’s chief financial officer, chief commercial officer, SVP business development, chief legal officer, and individual product owners. Within this internal incubator, I apply my experience as a team leader, product developer, scrum master, market researcher, project planner and facilitator.
Director, Foolish Development and Learning
2014 - 2015
The Motley Fool is a multimedia financial services company providing websites, books, newspaper columns, TV appearances, and newsletters.
Raised $25,700,000.00 from BIA Digital Partners and Patriot Capital.
Director, Retail Funds
2008 - 2016
Collaborating with portfolio managers, tech, legal, marketing and other teams to launch investment services for retail (e.g. non-institutional) investors.
Manager, New Product Development
2006 - 2009
Manage the ongoing growth of The Motley Fool's "Rule Your Retirement" financial advisory service. Work closely with newsletter advisor, marketing team and editorial team to create must-have service about retirement advice. Develop Web-based training and education programs. Identify and analyze competitors. Develop new financial advisory services.
The Motley Fool is a multimedia financial services company providing websites, books, newspaper columns, TV appearances, and newsletters.
Raised $25,700,000.00 from BIA Digital Partners and Patriot Capital.
Director of Electronic Media Communications
1998 - 2006
• Identify market opportunities and educate media companies about online publishing • Direct electronic communications for digital-media team (Web site, e-mail newsletters, reports) • Lead session programming for annual digital-media conference • Manage annual awards program that celebrates innovative online content and advertising • Manage industry committee dedicated to audience development • Present strategies, best practices at industry conferences and corporate meetings • Speak on the record to print, online, TV journalists who cover digital media
Assistant Editor/Editor
1997 - 1998
Developed, researched and reported breaking news, case studies and market research articles for mins New Media Report, a bi-weekly newsletter read by online publishing executives. Devised chart of Web site viewership figures, which helped bring in $37,000 worth of subscriptions two months after launching. Selected columnists and coordinated schedules. Contributed articles and story ideas to other Phillips newsletters
Education
Journalism
1991 - 1995