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Adam Healey

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Adam Healey
Adam Healey, Novela Founder & CEO
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OccupationInternet 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][failed verification]

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

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  1. ^ "LinkedIn Profile for Adam Healey".
  2. ^ "Borrowed and Blue content, employees get new life". Charlottesville Tomorrow. 20 January 2018. Retrieved 2018-03-28.
  3. ^ "Six Hotel Giants Team Up To Launch Hotel Search Engine Roomkey.com, Buy Hotelicopter".
  4. ^ "Room Key Announces Acquisition of Charlottesville-Based Hotelicopter". www.businesswire.com. March 13, 2012.
  5. ^ "Five Up and Coming Sites You Should Know About". The Washington Post. February 1, 2008.
  6. ^ Tanaka, Wendy. "In Pictures: Seven Top Sites For Planning Your Escape". Forbes.
  7. ^ "Online comparison sites move beyond price". NBC News. Archived from the original on January 20, 2021.
  8. ^ "Youth is Served at VibeAgent.com". USA Today. November 22, 2007.
  9. ^ Samba Digital Media Raises $2.4 Million Archived October 2, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, EarthWebNews, July 2000.
  10. ^ LLC, Braid. "University of Virginia McIntire — Galant Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship - McIntire School of Commerce | UVA". University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce.
  11. ^ [1] Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine Hack Cville Web Site.
  12. ^ "CIT Announces Winners of CIT's GAP 50 Entrepreneur Awards". PRWeb. Archived from the original on May 10, 2013.
  13. ^ Hit the Books Archived May 10, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Entrepreneur, April, 2008.
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