Adam Healey

Adam Healey

Adam Healey, Borrowed & Blue co-founder and CEO
Born (1974-12-03) 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 web site serving the wedding industry, based in Charlottesville, Virginia. [1]

Healey was previously 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. [2] [3]

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

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]

Healey 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 Healey was named one of the ‘Top 50 Entrepreneurs’ 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]

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 Archived October 2, 2008, at the Wayback Machine., EarthWebNews, July 2000.
  9. ↑ UVA Web Site.
  10. ↑ Hack Cville Web Site.
  11. ↑ CIT Web Site.
  12. ↑ Hit the Books Archived May 10, 2008, at the Wayback Machine., Entrepreneur, April, 2008.

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