Adam Healey

Adam Healey

Adam Healey, Borrowed & Blue co-founder and CEO
Born December 3, 1974
Rome, Italy
Occupation Internet entrepreneur

Adam Raymond Healey (born in Rome, Italy) is an Internet entrepreneur.

Currently, he is the co-founder & CEO of Borrowed & Blue, a consumer-facing web site serving the wedding industry, based in Charlottesville, Virginia. [1]

Adam was previously the co-founder & CEO of hotelicopter, a leading hotel meta-search engine that he sold in 2011 to Room Key, a consortium of the six largest hotel chains in the world. [2] [3]

The hotel search engine hotelicopter was featured by The Washington Post,[4] Forbes,[5] MSNBC.com,[6] and USA Today.[7]

The team at hotelicopter was responsible for a widely viewed April Fool's Day viral marketing stunt that helped launch their business in 2009.

He launched his first web startup, Samba Digital Media, in Prague in 1999 at the age of 24, where he helped build the company into one of the largest e-services firms in Central Europe.[8]

Adam is also a lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia, and serves on the board of the local startup hub HackCville. [9] [10]

In 2013 Adam was named ‘Top 50 Entrepreneur’ in Virginia by the Center for Innovative Technology. [11] Healey was also featured in Entrepreneur magazine's April 2008 issue about entrepreneurs with MBAs.[12]

Healey received his undergraduate and graduate business degrees from the University of Virginia, where he was named to the Raven Society, the University's oldest honorary society.

References

  1. ↑ , Borrowed & Blue Web Site.
  2. ↑ Six Hotel Giants Team up to Launch Hotel Search Engine Room Key, Buy Hotelicopter, TechCrunch, January 2012.
  3. ↑ Room Key Announces Acquisition of Charlottesville-Based Hotelicopter, Business Wire, March 2012.
  4. ↑ Five Up and Coming Sites You Should Know About, The Washington Post, February, 2008.
  5. ↑ Top Seven Travel Sites, Forbes.com, April, 2008.
  6. ↑ Online Comparison Sites Move Beyond Price, MSNBC.com, February, 2008.
  7. ↑ Youth is Served at VibeAgent.com, USA Today, November, 2007
  8. ↑ Samba Digital Media Raises $2.4 Million, EarthWebNews, July 2000.
  9. ↑ UVA Web Site.
  10. ↑ Hack Cville Web Site.
  11. ↑ CIT Web Site.
  12. ↑ Hit the Books, Entrepreneur, April, 2008.

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