Adam is a media sales and management veteran and has spent the last 13 years working in digital. Currently he is a CRO in Residence at Lerer Ventures advising the portfolio on revenue acceleration. Most recently, Adam worked at Thrillist as CRO & President of Sales to help them launch all aspects of the Thrillist Media Group (Thrillist, JackThreads, and Thrillist Rewards). Prior to Thrillist, he built the sales team at Martini Media as CRO. At Martini he accelerated the business into an eight figure revenue stream helping to increase enterprise value threefold. Before Martini Adam spent spent eight years at Yahoo! in various sales and sales management roles. He helped spearhead Yahoo’s US Hispanic advertising division to build it bigger then Univision digital, while overseeing the joint venture with NBC/Telemundo. In his last role he served as the company’s Executive Director of US sales for Yahoo’s display partnerships, managing a national team that monetized Yahoo’s off-network display assets. In this position revenue responsibility was north of 150 million annually. Adam is active in the advertising community and has presented at events for the NYU Stern School of Business, ANA, Adclub, and Adtech. He has taught digital media courses for the New School University and the Advertising Club of New York. He is also a writer on behalf of the digital media biz and featured on the American Express OPEN Forum, MediaBizBloggers, Mediapost, and of course Twitter.
