Ramin Arani is the Chief Financial Officer of Vice, a position he has held since November 2019. Prior to this, Ramin was a Portfolio Manager at Fidelity Investments where he had worked since graduating from Tufts University with a BA in International Relations in 1992. Most recently Ramin was Fund Manager of the Fidelity Puritan Fund from February 2008 through September 2018, where the Fund achieved top 5% performance relative to Lipper and Morningstar Balanced Fund Peers over all key performance time periods. The Fund was a 5-star rated & Silver-designated Fund, according to Morningstar, under his management. Prior to the Puritan Fund, Ramin managed the Fidelity Trend Fund for seven years, the Health Care Sector Fund in the late 90’s, and the Retail Select Fund in the mid-late 90’s.
As a Fidelity research analyst from 1992-2000, Ramin covered the Aerospace & Defense, REIT, Retail, and Pharmaceutical industries. As an investor in Private Companies for the past ten years, Ramin has served on several Company Boards such as Legendary Pictures, Vice, Moda Operandi, Rent the Runway, and Goop. Ramin has also personally been a founding partner and/or Board Member of Rumble Boxing, ED by Ellen Degeneres, and Girlgaze.
Currently, Ramin serves on the Boards of public companies Brunello Cucinelli, LiveXLive, and FAST Acquisition Corp, as well as private companies Rumble and Sakara Life. Among his philanthropic efforts, Ramin has served on the Boards of The College Foundation of the University of Virginia, The Nichols School, the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University, Opportunity Network, Devereux Cleo Wallace, and Danny & Ron’s Rescue (dog rescue).
Ramin has three daughters, one recently graduated from the University of Virginia, one attending Clemson University, and one at American Heritage High School. Ramin is an avid snowboarder, rock climber, runner, tennis player and live music fan.
I remember Ramin as a thoughtful, intellectually curious and adventurous student. I had full confidence in his maturity as he participated in one of our Institute’s more controversial immersive educational research experiences, traveling to Israel and the West Bank to understand accusations of alleged torture and abuse of Palestinian detainees. He was mentored by a friend, Dr. Jonathan Fine, the founder of Physicians for Human Rights. https://phr.org/our-work/resources/phr-remembers-its-founder-dr-jonathan-fine/
I had the pleasure of appointing Ramin to my Institute’s Board.
He honors what we instilled in him by continuing to serve, in a Board chaired by two other close alumni Maria Figueroa Kupcu and Jennifer Hooper Selendy, one of Trebuchet’s co-directors.
“As an EPIIC alumnus, I have a personal appreciation for the eye opening experiences and deeply probing research and discussions that IGL students enjoy. Serving on the BOD is a small way to give back to the IGL programs while personally continuing to learn from their robust content.”
Ramin is a wonderful friend. We’ve have had conversations about contentious political issues, but we have bantered for decades about sports, especially about Bills/Pats football – easy for me once. We’ll see how that goes now!