# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ricky-van-veen
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:14:01.256Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ricky-van-veen"
name: "Ricky Van Veen"
slug: "ricky-van-veen"
description: "Richard Raphael Van Veen is an American entrepreneur and the Head of Global Creative Strategy at Facebook. Van Veen co-founded Connected Ventures, the early tech startup that launched the comedy brand CollegeHumor and the video sharing website Vimeo. He was also CEO of Notional, the television production company behind the popular series Chopped."
tagline: "American entrepreneur"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rickyvanveen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1980-12-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           2.919804
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  76
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/rickyvanveen"
    handle:    "rickyvanveen"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://rickyvanveen.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ريكي فان فيين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Van_Veen"
    title: "Ricky Van Veen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7332217"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations