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Richard Moran (author)

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Richard A. Moran
Born1950
NationalityAmerican
Alma materRutgers College, Indiana University, Miami University
Occupation(s)Author, CEO, Venture Capitalist
Notable workNever Confuse a Memo with Reality, Sins and CEOs
Websitehttp://richardmoran.com/

Richard A. Moran is a San Francisco based speaker, investor, venture capitalist, author[1] and president emeritus of Menlo College. He is known for his series of business books beginning with, Never Confuse a Memo with Reality that established the genre of "Business Bullet Books."

Biography

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Raised in Rahway, New Jersey,[2] Moran graduated in 1968 from Rahway High School.[3]

Moran is General Partner at Tonic Bioventures https://tonicbioventures.com/ and founding partner of Blue Book Ventures. Investments include: RightRice, SiSaf, PopChips, Warehouse Exchange and AxoProtego, as well as a variety of start-ups in media and entertainment. He serves on the Board of Directors of Charli.ai https://charli.ai/ and as an advisor to Craft.co https://craft.co/, OROS https://www.orosapparel.com/pages/oros-technology and LBA Realty https://lbarealty.com/. He hosts the weekly show "In the Workplace" on KCBS Radio. https://www.audacy.com/kcbsradio

Moran was the tenth president of Menlo College,[4] a private four year college located in Silicon Valley. He is the first former president there given the "Emeritus" status for his contributions.[5] Moran previously served as CEO and vice chairman at Accretive Solutions, a national professional services firm with a focus on accounting, information technology and outsourcing. Accretive Solutions was sold in December 2017 to Resources Global Professionals.[6]

Prior to Accretive Solutions, Moran was a partner at Venrock, chairman of the board at Portal Software which was sold to Oracle for $220M.[7]

The Moran Family owns and operates a vineyard and winery in Knights Valley in Sonoma County. Moran chronicles the development of the vineyard and restoring an old house in his column "In the Country" which has been running in wine country newspapers since 1997.[8] The column received third place in journalism at the 2018 California Journalism Awards.[9]

Writing

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Moran has written ten business books. His latest book is Never Say Whatever, How Small Decisions Make A Big Difference, 2023, McGraw Hill, ISBN 978-126476-9643. His work has been translated into eight languages.

Other works include:

  • Trump@Work, 2020, ISBN 978-0-367-27354-5
  • The Thing About Work: Showing Up and Other Important Matters: A Worker's Manual was released in October 2016.[10]
  • Navigating Tweets, Feats, and Deletes: Lessons for the New Workplace (2014)(ISBN 978-0-9904012-1-6)
  • Sins and CEOs: Lessons from Leaders and Losers That Will Change Your Career (2011)
  • Nuts Bolts & Jolts: Fundamental Business and Life Lessons You Must Know (2006) (ISBN 978-1600080159)
  • Fear No Yellow Stickies: More Business Wisdom Too Simple Not to Know (1998) (ISBN 978-0684852195)
  • Cancel the Meeting, Keep the Doughnuts: And Other New Morsels of Business Wisdom (1995) (ISBN 978-0887307300)
  • Beware Those Who Ask For Feedback: And Other Organizational Constants (1994) (ISBN 978-0887307102)
  • Never Confuse A Memo with Reality: And Other Business Lessons Too Simple Not to Know (1993) (ISBN 978-0887306693)

References

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  1. ^ Pender, Kathleen (Jan 24, 1994). "BOOK OFFERS BUSINESS ETIQUETTE". Sun Sentinel. p. 27. Archived from the original on January 31, 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
  2. ^ Jennings, Duffy. "Meet Richard Moran, Menlo College", Joint Venture Silicon Valley, April 2015. Accessed May 24, 2021. "Moran grew up in a traditional Irish Catholic family in the southern New Jersey town of Rahway, best known, he quickly points out, for the state penitentiary there."
  3. ^ Featured Alumni, Rahway High. Accessed May 24, 2021. "Richard A. Moran, (RHS 68) President of Menlo College."
  4. ^ Leuty, Ron (8 July 2014). "Menlo College taps Accretive Solutions CEO as new president". San Francisco Business Times. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  5. ^ Choi, Calvin (23 May 2017). "DR. RICHARD MORAN TO RETIRE FROM MENLO COLLEGE | Menlo College". Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  6. ^ "RGP Acquires Professional Services Firm Accretive Solutions, Inc". Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  7. ^ "Oracle Buys Portal Software". Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  8. ^ Country, RICHARD A. MORAN In the (January 2019). "In the Wine Country: Are you feeling lucky?". Napa Valley Register. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  9. ^ STONEBERG, DAVID (7 May 2019). "St. Helena Star wins top awards in journalism competition". Napa Valley Register. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  10. ^ "Sitting down with Irish Author Rich Moran". Irish Technology Leadership Group. 21 November 2016. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
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