Adam Lehman

Current

• Chief Operating Officer at Lotame

Past

• Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship (University of Maryland)
• Managing Member/President at Rock Ridge Ventures, LLC
• Executive Vice President at ZG Ventures

• Senior Vice President / Divisional COO at America Online
• Various at AOL
• Associate General Counsel at America Online
• Associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

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Education

• Harvard Law School
• Dartmouth College

Recommended

7 people have recommended Adam

Connections

460 connections

Industry

Online Media

Adam Lehman’s Summary

Experienced operating executive, strategist, dealmaker, and investor with record of success developing new business opportunities in both early stage venture and public company corporate settings. Functional strength and experience in general management, strategic planning, corporate development, business development, investing (angel, venture and corporate), strategic transactions (M&A, joint ventures and partnerships), international business development and management, organizational and talent development, and business law/legal management. Deepest industry experience in digital media, marketing and technology.

Adam Lehman’s Specialties:

Managing business operations, leading corporate and business development teams, incubating early stage ventures, developing and executing M&A / strategic transactions, international expansion, business law/legal management

Adam Lehman’s Experience

• Chief Operating Officer

  Lotame

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  Lotame Solutions is a leading provider of targeted marketing solutions for social media. Lotame enables brand advertisers to deliver highly targeted marketing campaigns to customized audiences of online influencers; and offers social media sites a more effective way to optimize and monetize their advertising inventory. Lotame is backed by investors including Battery Ventures, Emergence Capital, Hillcrest Management and Betaworks. Please visit www.lotame.com for more information.

• Entrepreneur-in-Residence

  Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship (University of Maryland)

  (Higher Education industry)

  June 2005 — November 2008 (3 years 6 months)

  Have served since Summer 2005 as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School for Business, incubating new ventures, mentoring regional and student entrepreneurs, and delivering entrepreneurship education programming.

• Managing Member/President

  Rock Ridge Ventures, LLC

  (Online Media industry)

  April 2002 — November 2008 (6 years 8 months)

  Incubated and invested in new digital media and marketing ventures (including playing founding operating roles with several ventures). Rock Ridge portfolio companies have included Wondir, a community-based Q&A service (acquired by Revolution Health Group), NaturalPath Media, the leading sustainable and healthy living advertising network, Goozex, the leading online platform and community for the exchange of video games, Hook & Ladder Brewing Company, one of the fastest growing craft brewer in the country which contributes a "penny from every pint" to support firefighters and burn foundations, GeniusRocket, a leading creative crowdsourcing platform and Carmun, an innovator in knowledge sharing applications for students. Visit www.rockridgeventures.com for more information.

• Executive Vice President

  ZG Ventures

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  December 2003 — January 2006 (2 years 2 months)

• Senior Vice President / Divisional COO

  America Online

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TWX; Internet industry)

  January 1999 — March 2002 (3 years 3 months)

  Led International Business Affairs & Development team, formulating strategies and business plans to expand and solidify AOL's presence in Europe, Asia and Latin America, and negotiating AOL investments, acquisitions, joint ventures and partnerships to execute on these plans. In addition, managed operations for 150 person corporate business development unit, with oversight for recruiting, training, organizational development, planning/budgeting and other administrative operations.

• Various

  AOL

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Online Media industry)

  January 1995 — March 2002 (7 years 3 months)

  See "America Online" descriptions

• Associate General Counsel

  America Online

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Online Media industry)

  January 1995 — December 1998 (4 years )

  Recruited, trained and supervised team of fifteen transactional attorneys responsible for structuring and negotiation of AOL commercial partnerships. Negotiated wide variety of content, marketing, advertising, with leading companies including Viacom, Sony, Yahoo, AT&T, Sprint, Amazon, Barnes and Noble and American Express. Developed first generation Internet content, marketing and advertising deal models and partnership policies.

• Associate

  Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

  (Partnership; 1001-5000 employees; Law Practice industry)

  September 1992 — December 1994 (2 years 4 months)

  Assisted in the structuring and negotiation of investments, mergers, acquisitions and financings.

Adam Lehman’s Education

• Harvard Law School

  J.D. , 1989 — 1992

  Cum Laude, Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, HLS Drama Society

• Dartmouth College

  A.B. ,

  Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Harry S. Truman Scholar (1987)