[7] He is the nephew of Georgetown University Law Center professor, and former director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection of the Federal Trade Commission David Vladeck.

[8] As a teenager, Vladeck was heavily involved with quiz bowl, basketball, and baseball at Montgomery Blair High School.

After high school, Vladeck went to Amherst College, where he was active in the athletics department and double majored in history and mathematics.

[4] Vladeck worked on the legal team managed by Neal K. Katyal that successfully challenged the constitutionality of George W. Bush's Guantanamo Military Commissions.

[citation needed] In 2011, Vladeck married Karen Shafrir, the former managing director of Whisler Partners, a law firm for startup technology companies.