Scott Adams – CEO and Founder, Adams Online Ventures
Scott is widely regarded as an Internet visionary and entrepreneur. He has the rare ability to successfully combine information technology skills and business/marketing knowledge in order to solve business problems and quickly improve a company’s ROI.
This ability comes from a variety of skills that Scott developed beginning in his youth, when he taught himself the C programming language, and then continued to grow when he launched an IT support and programming business in his teens. Eventually, Scott went to work as a programmer for consulting firms, and in that position, he enjoyed contract work with worldwide clients such as Fleishman-Hillard, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, UPS, Nextel, MasterCard and many others. Scott’s expertise and experience continued to grow as the world continued to shrink. In his most recent “job,” he grew a small eBook company into a multimillion-dollar public records search corporation that handled billions of records and millions of users; Scott came into that company as a programmer in 2000, and in 2010, he retired from the roles of Partner, President and CEO.
Today, Scott is well known and respected in the online business community, the card-not-present payment community, and the affiliate and Internet marketing community. He’s expanding his connections through forays into the corporate speaking world, and these connections have proven to be among the most valuable of his experience. His ability to assess a business’s needs, break down the IT/marketing/business barriers, establish a plan for growth, and build on that company’s foundation of strengths is what sets Scott apart from the other business “experts” marketing their services today.
Credentials and Recent Accomplishments:
- Past President, CEO, and CIO of HD Publishing Group and Associated Companies
- Past Strategy Chair of the Direct Response Forum
- Past Education and Public Relations Chair of the Direct Response Forum
- Expert at merging IT, business and marketing skills
- Coined the phrase and developed the methodology of “Guerrilla Optimization” to rapidly create and bring to market profitable software/service/information products online
- Managed Google AdWord accounts totaling more than $3 million annually with a 100% or greater ROI
- Managed and built affiliate programs with as many as 250,000 affiliates
- Managed acquisitions and business development deals totaling millions of dollars to help companies grow and gain talent
- Evolved a business that began with one eBook into a top public record search system handling over 15 million searches monthly made by more than 2 million subscribers of more than 3 billion records (all with sub-second response time)
- Experienced with IT architecture involving distributed cloud computing, virtual machines, and SANs
- Angel investor
- Payment processing expert; overhauled and optimized payment processing accounts, saving companies over 40% in processing costs
- Experienced in digital download, multi-level marketing, subscription service, digital content, applications as services, and many other business models
Certifications
- CSPC Certified Professional Corporate Speaker
- Certified and licensed rotorcraft and fixed wing pilot