Adam Healey Explained

Adam Healey
Birth Place:Rome, Italy
Occupation:Internet entrepreneur

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

Adam is the Founder & CEO of Novela, a software platform serving the wedding industry.[1]

Previously, he was the co-founder & CEO of Borrowed & Blue, a web site serving the wedding industry, based in Charlottesville, Virginia, that was founded in 2011 and sold to Zola in 2017.[2]

Before that, Healey was the co-founder & CEO of hotelicopter, a hotel meta-search engine that he sold in 2011 to Room Key, a consortium of the six largest hotel chains in the world.[3] [4]

The hotel search engine hotelicopter (previously called VibeAgent) was featured by The Washington Post,[5] Forbes,[6] MSNBC,[7] and USA Today.[8]

He launched his first web startup, Samba Digital Media, in Prague in 1999 at the age of 24, where he built the company into one of the largest e-services firms in Central Europe.[9]

Healey is also a frequent 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.[10] [11]

In 2013 Healey was named one of the ‘Top 50 Entrepreneurs’ in Virginia by the Center for Innovative Technology.[12] Healey was also featured in Entrepreneur magazine's April 2008 issue about entrepreneurs with MBAs.[13]

References

  1. Web site: LinkedIn Profile for Adam Healey.
  2. Web site: Borrowed and Blue content, employees get new life. Charlottesville Tomorrow. 20 January 2018 . 2018-03-28.
  3. Web site: Six Hotel Giants Team Up To Launch Hotel Search Engine Roomkey.com, Buy Hotelicopter.
  4. Web site: Room Key Announces Acquisition of Charlottesville-Based Hotelicopter. March 13, 2012. www.businesswire.com.
  5. News: Five Up and Coming Sites You Should Know About. The Washington Post. February 1, 2008.
  6. Web site: In Pictures: Seven Top Sites For Planning Your Escape. Wendy. Tanaka. Forbes.
  7. Web site: Online comparison sites move beyond price. https://web.archive.org/web/20210120142841/https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna23243881. dead. January 20, 2021. NBC News.
  8. News: Youth is Served at VibeAgent.com. USA Today. November 22, 2007.
  9. http://news.earthweb.com/bus-news/article.php/407151 Samba Digital Media Raises $2.4 Million
  10. Web site: University of Virginia McIntire — Galant Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship - McIntire School of Commerce | UVA. Braid. LLC. University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce.
  11. http://hackcvillemedia.com/2015/01/27/hackcvilles-semester-review-fall-2014/
  12. Web site: CIT Announces Winners of CIT's GAP 50 Entrepreneur Awards. https://web.archive.org/web/20130510042458/http://www.prweb.com/releases/CITGAPFunds/GAP50Winners/prweb10235573.htm. dead. May 10, 2013. PRWeb.
  13. http://www.entrepreneur.com/magazine/entrepreneur/2008/april/191426.html Hit the Books

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