After an early career as a foreign correspondent for the Danish newspaper
Politiken from 1989 until 1997 (Eastern Europe and London), and as a foreign affairs reporter with the national Danish broadcaster TV 2 until 1998, he co-founded the independent health information portal NetDoctor.com in 1998 and took it from a Danish start-up into being a digital publisher of health information across Britain, Germany,
Scandinavia and other European countries. Later, in 2001, he re-joined TV 2 as
Chief Digital Officer for six years. In this position on December 6 2004 his team launched the TV and film on-demand services, TV 2 Sputnik, later renamed
TV 2 Play. After co-founding two other healthtech companies E-Doktor (2002-2008) and SundhedsDoktor (2006-2016), he co-founded Liva Healthcare in 2015, specialising in digital lifestyle related chronic condition management, with offices in
London and
Copenhagen. In 2017, NHS England selected Liva Health as a preferred digital innovation partner in trying to prevent and reverse
type 2 diabetes and
obesity (The "Healthier You" Digital Diabetes Prevention Programme, DDPP). As a passion project beginning in May 2010, Rune Bech initiated the re-opening of Copenhagen's historic
jazz venue, Jazzhus Montmartre. The place has a story going back to 1959 when it put Copenhagen on the world map of jazz by attracting some of the best artists of the time. Several famous jazz musicians fell in love with the place and relocated to Copenhagen in the 1960s and 1970s. Among them
Dexter Gordon,
Ben Webster,
Stan Getz, Kenny Drew, and many more. Using Jazzhus Montmartre as their hub, they served as mentors for major Danish jazz artists such as
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen,
Palle Mikkelborg,
Bo Stief,
Alex Riel and many more. == Personal life ==