Randall Kaplan

Randall Kaplan is a serial entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of Akamai Technologies.[1][2] Kaplan is an active venture investor and is the managing partner of JUMP Investors, a Los Angeles-based venture capital and private equity firm.[3]

Randall Kaplan
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
Northwestern University
OccupationVenture Capitalist, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist
Spouse(s)Madison Kaplan
Children4

Early life

Kaplan grew up in Detroit, Michigan and graduated from the University of Michigan with Highest Distinction.[4] After graduation, Kaplan moved to Chicago to attend the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law at Northwestern University. Kaplan is on the Northwestern Law Board, has been a guest lecturer at Northwestern Law School, and received the school’s first Distinguished Entrepreneur Award in 2006.[5][6]

Business career

In 1996, Kaplan started his business career where at age 27 he was hired to be the Assistant to the Chairman at SunAmerica working closely with its then founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, Eli Broad.[7]

In August 1998, Kaplan left SunAmerica to start Akamai Technologies with Tom Leighton, Daniel Lewin, and Jonathan Seelig.[8] After leaving Akamai, Kaplan started JUMP Investors, a Los Angeles-based venture capital and private equity firm that today functions as his family office and investment firm.

Kaplan is currently the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Sandee, LLC, a Los-Angeles-based travel start-up.[9] Kaplan is also the owner and Chief Executive Officer of CollarCard, LLC, a Los Angeles-based promotional products company.[10]

Philanthropy

In 1996, at the age of 27, Kaplan started The Justice Ball,[11] a charity concert that several years after its formation became one of the leading philanthropic events in Los Angeles.[12] The beneficiary of the event is Bet Tzedek Legal Services, a non-profit public interest law firm that provides free comprehensive legal services for low-income individuals and families in Los Angeles.[13]

In addition to his philanthropic efforts through The Justice Ball, Kaplan is the co-founder and current co-chair of The Imagine Ball.[14][15] The Imagine Ball is an annual charity concert whose proceeds benefit Imagine LA, a non-profit breaking the cycle of family homelessness and poverty in Los Angeles through the power of mentoring.[16] Kaplan established the Julia Eder Dean’s Scholarship at the University of Michigan in honor of his grandmother – an all-expenses, all-tuition scholarship for a student who, like Kaplan’s grandmother, was raised in foster care.[17][18] Kaplan has also endowed a permanent full-tuition, need-based scholarship at the University of Michigan.[19]

References
  1. "MIT Scientists Develop New Method to Distribute Content over World Wide Web". Akamai Technologies. Retrieved 2011-02-08.
  2. "Akamai First Press Release". akamaifirstpressrelease.com. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
  3. "About Us". JUMP Investors. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  4. www.sec.gov https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1136655/000114420409033355/v152810_ex99-1.htm. Retrieved 2019-10-28. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. "Members, About: Northwestern Pritzker School of Law". www.law.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  6. "Annual Conference, Research & Faculty: Northwestern Pritzker School of Law". www.law.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  7. Amy, Smith (Winter 2014). "Scaling the Internet" (PDF). Jewish Review of Books. Eric Cohen. 4: 48.
  8. "Company History | Akamai". www.akamai.com. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  9. www.bloomberg.com https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-06/sandee-wants-to-be-the-yelp-of-beaches. Retrieved 2019-10-28. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. Leano, John (2019-03-18). "A Conversation with Randall Kaplan of CollarCard". Cleaner & Launderer. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  11. "The Justice Ball". The Justice Ball. Archived from the original on 2011-07-28. Archived July 28, 2011.
  12. href='https://jewishjournal.com/author/'></a>, BY <a (2006-06-22). "Young Lawyer Has a Ball With Bet Tzedek". Jewish Journal. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  13. "The Cause". Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  14. "Imagine Ball". Imagine Ball. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  15. "The Imagine Ball Presented By John Terzian & Randall Kaplan Benefiting Imagine LA". TheWrap. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  16. "Who We Are". Imagine LA. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  17. Greenwald, Judy (2018-11-01). "A Will To Succeed". The Jewish News. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  18. Proceedings of the Board of Regents. The University. 1870. p. 308. randall kaplan julia eder deans scholarship.
  19. "The University of Michigan Regents' Communication Report on Voluntary Support" (PDF). The University of Michigan. January 31, 2008.
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