Adrian Fenty

Adrian Malik Fenty (born December 6, 1970) and served as a member of the business development team at the law firm Perkins Coie. Fenty has held advisory and business development roles with Rosetta Stone, Everfi, and Capgemini. He has served on the boards of directors at two nonprofits: Genesys Works-Bay Area and Fight for Children. He has served as a paid speaker, part-time college professor, and adviser for state and local governments with an information technology consulting firm.

He co-founded in 2019 as managing partner a venture capital firm, MaC Venture Capital, headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Early life, education, and family Fenty was born in Washington, D.C., the second of the three children of Jeanette Bianchi Perno Fenty and Phil Fenty. Fenty's mother is Italian-American. He earned a B.A. in English and economics from Oberlin College, and a J.D. from the Howard University School of Law. was elected to the Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC), district 4C, and also was president of the 16th Street Neighborhood Civic Association.

Council of the District of Columbia In 2000, Fenty won a seat on the Council of the District of Columbia, defeating longtime Ward 4 Councilmember Charlene Drew Jarvis by a margin of 57 to 43 percent after engaging in an aggressive door-to-door strategy. which functions as a practice test for college bound students. Much of the cash held by the fund came from the money raised during his 2006 mayoral candidacy. Fenty donated the $440,709 remaining in his citizen-service fund to Forward Faster. By 2013, Simpson, Lasner, and Washington were no longer connected to the organization.

Since then, District law was changed to prohibit an elected official from incorporating a nonprofit organization at the end of his or her term in office and transferring constituent services fund money into it.

His son Andrew is a tennis player who achieved a national junior tennis rank of 4 before starting at the University of Michigan in 2018 where he earned Freshman of the Year status from the Intercollegiate Tennis Association and the Big Ten Conference and was named the NCAA's Rookie of the Year.

In August 2013, The Washington Post reported that Fenty was in a relationship with Laurene Powell Jobs. Powell Jobs, widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, also has three children. The couple was seen arriving for a state dinner at the White House in August 2016 and was last seen together in July 2025 for the wedding of her daughter, Eve Jobs. In October 2017, it was reported by The Washington Post that Powell Jobs and Fenty were no longer dating but remained close friends.

Fenty is an amateur triathlete and runner. During his time as mayor, he participated in the Nation's Triathlon and the Washington, D.C. Triathlon.

Electoral history

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