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founders of Connected Ventures Chief Executive Officer of Notional

Richard "Ricky" Van Veen is an American entrepreneur.

Education

Wake Forest University.

Career

Van Veen created the site as a student at Wake Forest. He is also one of the principal owners and founders of Connected Ventures, a company formed around CollegeHumor that included BustedTees and Vimeo. He also appeared in episode six of Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld"s podcast "If I Were You" becoming the first guest to do southern

He often appears in some of the company"s video series" such as Jake and Amir and Hardly Working, and the former Music Television program The CollegeHumor Show.

In July 2009 Van Veen was announced to be the Chief Executive Officer of the new production company, Notional, which would be producing material for the traditional media of television One of Notional"s most noteworthy television shows is "Chopped" on the Food Network.

Notional would not be funded by InterActiveCorp/InterActiveCorp. Van Veen would be mentored by Barry Diller, who is the chairman and senior executive of InterActiveCorp/InterActiveCorp.

Van Veen is from Lutherville-Timonium, Maryland.

He is the son of Helen and Richard Van Veen. Van Veen is married to actress Allison Williams.

Achievements

  • He is the co-founder of CollegeHumor, a popular comedy brand/website and Chief Executive Officer of Notional, a television production company born out of CollegeHumor.