Adam Healey

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

Adam Healey
Adam Healey, Missionbear Founder & CEO
Born (1974-12-03) December 3, 1974
Rome, Italy
OccupationInternet entrepreneur

Adam is the Founder & CEO of Missionbear, a strategic consultancy that works with e-commerce entrepreneurs.[1][2]

Previously, he was the co-founder & CEO of Borrowed & Blue, a web site serving the wedding industry, based in Charlottesville, Virginia.[3] Borrowed & Blue was founded in 2011 and sold to Zola in 2017.[4]

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.[5][6]

The hotel search engine hotelicopter (previously called VibeAgent) was featured by The Washington Post,[7] Forbes,[8] MSNBC,[9] and USA Today.[10]

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.[11]

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.[12][13]

In 2013 Healey was named one of the ‘Top 50 Entrepreneurs’ in Virginia by the Center for Innovative Technology.[14] Healey was also featured in Entrepreneur magazine's April 2008 issue about entrepreneurs with MBAs.[15]

References
  1. "LinkedIn Profile for Adam Healey".
  2. "Build a Category-Winning Brand Online". www.missionbear.com.
  3. Archived 2016-10-04 at the Wayback Machine, Borrowed & Blue Web Site.
  4. "Borrowed and Blue content, employees get new life". Charlottesville Tomorrow. 20 January 2018. Retrieved 2018-03-28.
  5. "Six Hotel Giants Team Up To Launch Hotel Search Engine Roomkey.com, Buy Hotelicopter".
  6. "Room Key Announces Acquisition of Charlottesville-Based Hotelicopter". www.businesswire.com. March 13, 2012.
  7. "Five Up and Coming Sites You Should Know About". The Washington Post. February 1, 2008.
  8. Tanaka, Wendy. "In Pictures: Seven Top Sites For Planning Your Escape". Forbes.
  9. "Online comparison sites move beyond price". NBC News.
  10. "Youth is Served at VibeAgent.com". USA Today. November 22, 2007.
  11. Samba Digital Media Raises $2.4 Million Archived October 2, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, EarthWebNews, July 2000.
  12. LLC, Braid. "University of Virginia McIntire — Galant Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship - McIntire School of Commerce | UVA". University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce.
  13. Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine Hack Cville Web Site.
  14. "CIT Announces Winners of CIT's GAP 50 Entrepreneur Awards". PRWeb.
  15. Hit the Books Archived May 10, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Entrepreneur, April, 2008.
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