Ronald A. Klain

Ron Klain is General Counsel of Revolution LLC, an investment firm launched by AOL Co-Founder Steve Case to back disruptive, innovative companies that offer consumers more choice, convenience, and control in their lives.  Prior to joining Revolution in 2005, Klain spent four years as a partner and National Practice Group Chair at O'Melveny & Myers LLP, where his practice focused on constitutional and commercial litigation, antitrust, and corporate transactions.   

In addition to his private sector career, Klain has devoted considerable time to public service, most recently as a senior White House aide to President Obama, and Chief of Staff to Vice President Joe Biden from 2009 to 2011.   Earlier, he served as Chief of Staff for Vice President Al Gore, Chief of Staff and Counselor to Attorney General Janet Reno, Staff Director of the Senate Democratic Leadership Committee, and Chief Counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee.  Klain was also Associate Counsel to President Clinton in charge of judicial selection.  Through his work on the Judiciary Committee, and in the Clinton and Obama administrations, he has played a role in the selection or confirmation of eight Supreme Court Justices.   Klain began his legal career as a law clerk to Justice Byron White, for the Supreme Court’s 1987 and 1988 Terms.

Klain gained national notice as General Counsel for the Gore Recount Committee in 2000, in recognition of which he was selected as one of National Law Journal's "Lawyers of the Year," and portrayed by Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey in HBO's film "RECOUNT."   He has also worked as a top debate preparation advisor to Presidents Obama and Clinton, and Democratic Presidential nominees Al Gore and John Kerry.

Klain’s current and previous civic affiliations include service as Chairman of the Board of the Vice President's Residence Foundation; a member of the Board of Visitors of Harvard Law School; and a Board Member of the American Progress Action Fund, the American Constitution Society, and Third Way.  He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review and won the Sears Prize in 1985.  He was a summa cum laude graduate of Georgetown University (College of Arts & Sciences, 1983), where he currently is an Adjunct Professor in the Government Department teaching a seminar on Presidential Debates.  He is married to Monica Medina, who is Policy Director for National Geographic’s Pristine Seas Initiative, and previously was Deputy Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).   They have three children.