Randy Robertson spent two seasons throwing passes for the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs before building a career in marketing and advertising that has kept him largely out of the spotlight.
He is the former husband of Kim Mulkey, the LSU women’s basketball head coach and one of only three people in NCAA history to win a national championship as a player, an assistant and a head coach.
Robertson and Mulkey were married for nearly 19 years, raised two children who both went on to their own athletic careers, and divorced in 2006 in a split that Mulkey has since described as one of the most painful experiences of her life.
Randy Robertson Biography
His exact date of birth has never been made public. What is well documented is where he ended up. Robertson has lived in Waco, Texas, for years, the same city where Mulkey coached Baylor for two decades, and he has built a career there entirely separate from his ex-wife’s basketball fame.
Robertson played quarterback for Louisiana Tech, starting for the Bulldogs in 1975 and 1976. In his first year as the starter, he completed 72 of 144 passes for 1,079 yards, eight touchdowns and four interceptions as Louisiana Tech went 8 and 2.
The following season, he completed 35 of 83 passes for 612 yards with five touchdowns and eight interceptions as the team finished 6- 5.
He earned a bachelor’s degree from Louisiana Tech and has been reported to have gone on to complete a master’s degree in public relations and advertising at the University of Alabama, building an academic background that lines up directly with the career he built afterward.
Kim Mulkey’s Ex-Husband
Randy Robertson and Mulkey met at Louisiana Tech in the early 1980s, when Mulkey was a star guard for the Lady Techsters basketball team, and Robertson was working at the school after his own playing career had ended.
They were introduced by a mutual friend and dated for years before marrying in the summer of 1987 in a private ceremony at First Baptist Church in Louisiana.
The wedding itself came with tension that Mulkey has spoken about since. Her parents had divorced, and her father had remarried, and a dispute over where his new wife would sit at the ceremony led to her father skipping the wedding entirely.
Robertson reportedly wrote to him afterward, but never received a response. Mulkey went through with the ceremony anyway.
The couple had two children. Their daughter, Makenzie, was born on September 16, 1991, and went on to become a two-sport athlete at Baylor, playing both basketball and softball before joining her mother’s staff as an assistant coach at LSU.
Their son, Kramer Reid Robertson, was born on September 20, 1994, and became a professional baseball player, reaching the majors with the St. Louis Cardinals and later spending time with the New York Mets before becoming a free agent.
The Divorce
Mulkey and Randy Robertson divorced in 2006, a year after Mulkey led Baylor to its first national championship in 2005. By multiple accounts, it was Robertson who asked for the divorce, telling Mulkey he felt neglected as her coaching career consumed more of her time and attention. Mulkey has said the timing blindsided her.
She has described feeling that her life was good at that point, with two thriving children and a career on the rise, only to have her marriage end without warning.
She has spoken about the divorce publicly on multiple occasions since, most notably in a 2026 interview with WBRZ’s Michael Cauble, where she said she had offered to give up her coaching career entirely in an attempt to save the marriage.
She described the divorce as something she has never fully gotten over, saying she still feels, deep down, like she failed to make it work, and she has used her own experience to urge others going through the same thing not to give up too easily.
She has been direct that the split affected her children regardless of their age, and has said publicly that she has not been on a date since the divorce, choosing instead to focus entirely on coaching and raising Kramer and Makenzie.
Career
Randy Robertson’s career path to Waco took two full decades and three distinct careers before he ever started the company he still runs today.
After earning a marketing degree from Louisiana Tech in 1977, he went on to complete a master’s degree in advertising and public relations at the University of Alabama in 1981, giving him a formal academic grounding in the field well before he built a business around it.
His first job out of college was Director of Marketing at Ruston State Bank in Ruston, Louisiana, work that put him inside the financial industry early in his career and gave him a foundation he would return to later.
In the mid 1980s he left banking to start his own advertising agency, building a client base of local and regional businesses across north Louisiana.
He ran that agency for roughly a decade before selling it in the mid 1990s. At that point, he shifted into insurance and investment work for four years, deepening the financial industry knowledge he had first picked up at Ruston State Bank.
In 2000, Robertson and his family relocated to Waco, Texas, where he founded the company he still owns today, INNOVATiON Marketing and Consulting.
The firm describes itself as a full-service marketing operation built around four core services: brand analysis, strategic planning, creative production and graphic design, serving clients at the local, regional and national level.
Over more than two decades in Waco, INNOVATiON’s client roster has included Baylor University, the Baylor Bear Foundation, Time Manufacturing, Time Warner Cable, Wilsonart, ALICO, the Waco Chamber of Commerce, Texas Workforce, and dozens of other regional businesses and institutions, positioning Robertson as one of the more established marketing consultants in the Central Texas business community.
Alongside INNOVATiON, he also operates Robertson Communications, a separate registered business based out of the same Waco office, which has held an active Texas sales tax permit since 2012. Robertson’s leadership extended well beyond his own client work.
He served as Governor of the American Advertising Federation’s 10th District, a region covering Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana, one of the more prominent volunteer leadership roles in the advertising industry’s professional association structure.
Before that, he served multiple terms as President of AAF Waco and, earlier still, as President of AAF Northeast Louisiana, meaning he held federation leadership roles in two different states across two different phases of his career. His civic involvement in Waco runs just as deep as his professional resume.
Robertson has served as a Trustee of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, sat on the board of the Waco Chamber of Commerce, served as Past President of the Midway High School Athletic Booster Club, and held board positions with both the Boys and Girls Club of Waco and AAF Waco.
