Team

As operators at a formerly venture-backed company, the venture team vividly understands the entrepreneur’s journey. We’ve seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of building a business. Our team has hands-on experience in a wide-range of areas, including growth, optimization, marketing, capital raising, restructuring, redeeming, operations, and much more.

Team

Autumn Manning

Entrepreneur-in-Residence

Autumn is an experienced CEO and entrepreneur who specializes in go-to-market strategies, establishing scalable operating practices, and implementing practices that empower organizations to scale effective organizational cultures to support the pace of operational growth.

Ayanna Washington

Project Coordinator

Prior to joining Motley Fool Ventures, Ayanna was a member of The Motley Fool's Member Services team. As a Member Services representative for over six years, she was responsible for helping members use and understand the vast array of investing guidance services on fool.com.

Brendan Mathews

Vice President

Prior to joining the venture fund, Brendan was a senior analyst in the Motley Fool’s U.S. investing team. For six years, he found and followed great companies for David and Tom Gardner as a researcher and writer for Stock Advisor, Motley Fool One, and Supernova.

Dilene Upendra

Intern

Dilene is a senior at the University of Maryland, College Park double majoring in Finance and International Business. Through her school’s “Plus 1” program, she has started her Master of Finance degree, with an expected graduation date in December of 2021.

John Keeling

Venture Partner

John has lead The Motley Fool’s business development team for over 10 years. He has been responsible for managing our ad business, developing and managing partnerships such as Yahoo!, Aol, MSN, CNN, our brokerage partners, and many more.

Jon Unterseh

Head of Community

Before joining Motley Fool Ventures, Jon was a writer and channel manager on The Motley Fool’s marketing team. As a marketer, he worked to reach a broader and more diverse population of potential members, and to guide them to service best suited to their needs.

Kristine Harjes

Investment Officer

For four years prior to joining Motley Fool Ventures, Kristine was a member of the fool.com team, which made heavy use of her skills in digital media, search engine marketing, data analytics, and customer acquisition.

Lawrence Greenberg

Venture Partner

As Chief Legal Officer of The Motley Fool, Lawrence worked with the members of the Motley Fool Ventures team, and others, on all kinds of deals, from venture and debt financing, to international joint ventures, to technology and content licensing.

Maggie Dorn

Venture Partner

As Chief Network Officer, Maggie manages and grows The Motley Fool’s unique network of influencers, thought leaders, and businesses. Within their network, she uncovers collaborative opportunities that adds diversity of thought and drives commercial value.

Ollen Douglass

Managing Director

Prior to joining the Fund, Ollen was CFO of The Motley Fool Holdings, Inc. for 14 years. During that time, He was responsible for the overall financial health of the Fool, and helped guide the company through periods of major growth, contraction and market volatility.

Rob Runett

Vice President

A Fool since 2006, Rob was a founding team member of Motley Fool Asset Management, LLC, and he served as Director of Retail Operations after the asset management business’ launch in 2009.

Thomas Jones

Venture Partner

Thomas, more commonly known to friends as TJ, worked full time for The Motley Fool for 14 years and held a number of roles ranging from Office Manager to Head of Business Development, and currently serves as a Fool consultant, helping to manage the private company portfolio.

Advisors

Putnam Coes

Advisor

Putnam was a Partner and Chief Operating Officer of Paulson & Company, Inc. (2007-2016), an investment management firm specializing in global merger arbitrage and event-related strategies with peak AUM of $40 billion. He was responsible for all of the non-investment functions of the firm.

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Advisors

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