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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. 〔(), Borrowed & Blue Web Site.〕 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. 〔(Six Hotel Giants Team up to Launch Hotel Search Engine Room Key, Buy Hotelicopter ), TechCrunch, January 2012.〕 〔(Room Key Announces Acquisition of Charlottesville-Based Hotelicopter ), Business Wire, March 2012.〕 The hotel search engine hotelicopter was featured by The Washington Post,〔(Five Up and Coming Sites You Should Know About ), The Washington Post, February, 2008.〕 Forbes,〔(Top Seven Travel Sites ), Forbes.com, April, 2008.〕 MSNBC.com,〔(Online Comparison Sites Move Beyond Price ), MSNBC.com, February, 2008.〕 and USA Today.〔(Youth is Served at VibeAgent.com ), USA Today, November, 2007〕 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.〔(Samba Digital Media Raises $2.4 Million ), EarthWebNews, July 2000.〕 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. 〔() UVA Web Site.〕 〔() Hack Cville Web Site.〕 In 2013 Adam was named ‘Top 50 Entrepreneur’ in Virginia by the Center for Innovative Technology. 〔() CIT Web Site.〕 Healey was also featured in Entrepreneur magazine's April 2008 issue about entrepreneurs with MBAs.〔(Hit the Books ), Entrepreneur, April, 2008.〕 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== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adam Healey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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