Joe Vladeck / PLLC

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Portrait of Joe Vladeck

I am a lawyer and entrepreneur based in Washington, DC. I am currently the General Counsel at Truemed. Before that I ran a solo legal shop for a year and a half, and prior to that spent five+ years as the General Counsel of Hubble, the first direct-to-consumer contact lens brand, which is backed by some of the country’s top VCs.

I started my legal career as an associate with Hogan Lovells’ leading privacy practice, where I counseled brand-name technology and healthcare companies (and the Brooklyn Nets!) on privacy, cybersecurity, and consumer protection issues.

The common thread across my career is that I have always been interested in high-risk, high-reward businesses that sit at the intersection of business, law, and public policy. In addition to working with entrepreneurs as a legal and business partner, I also recently founded a startup company to transform the way antenatal and postpartum mood disorders (such as postpartum depression) are diagnosed, monitored, and treated.

I have a JD and an MBA from Georgetown, where I was an InSITE Fellow and advised startup companies such as Naytev. Before enrolling at Georgetown, I helped run College Forward, a non-profit college access and persistence program in Austin, Texas, where I focused on expansion, strategic planning, and development. While in Austin I lived through what at the time were the two hottest summers ever recorded in Texas.

I played baseball at Amherst College, and after that I spent year as a professional baseball player in Belgium. (And yes, they play baseball in Belgium, just not very well.) I’ve also worked as an AmeriCorps*VISTA member and at a farmers’ market.

I am a Washington, DC native, and live on Capitol Hill with my family.