Brian Adkins

Current

Executive Vice President; Chief Planning Officer at Hamilton Communications

Past

Personnel Assessment at Newly Weds Foods
Principal and Chief Operating Officer at Pivotal Glyph Holdings
Editor and Publisher at New Works Review

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Education

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Milwaukee Custer High School

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Recommended

5 people have recommended Brian

Connections

185 connections

Industry

Marketing and Advertising

Websites

Hamilton Communications

Brian Adkins’s Summary

What happens when a research scholar and university instructor becomes a serial web entrepreneur; finds his voice as a writer and communicator; and helps two business visionaries make good on their dreams?

Interested in this story? Great, because you're already reading it.

Brian Adkins’s Specialties:

Writing and communication, recruiting strategy and execution, operations, organizational development, personnel assessment, serial entrepreneur

Brian Adkins’s Experience

Executive Vice President; Chief Planning Officer

Hamilton Communications

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

November 2005 — Present (4 years 2 months)

"The best job in America" with the opportunity and responsibility of fostering Hamilton's overall growth and development as well as serving the needs of our internal and external clients in a rapidly-changing era.
Personnel Assessment

Newly Weds Foods

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Food Production industry)

October 2000 — February 2005 (4 years 5 months)

I played a pivotal role in revamping the Corporate Personnel Department and enhancing the effectiveness of Personnel professionals in the Newly Weds Foods organization.

With more than a billion dollars in annual sales, NWF is one of the largest privately-held food processing and product development firms in the world, with installations in North America, as well as operations in the United Kingdom, Australia, the Netherlands, and Asia.

Employees at NWF Headquarters voted me as their Employee of the Year (People's Choice Award) in 2001.
Principal and Chief Operating Officer

Pivotal Glyph Holdings

(Online Media industry)

October 1999 — August 2002 (2 years 11 months)

In October, 1999 I purchased Pivotal Glyph, a struggling online literary magazine from the publication's principal owner.

Leveraging my years in academia, I converted the operation into Pivotal Glyph America, a time capsule of American culture; increasing site traffic and gaining valuable experience that allowed me to assume control of the New Works Review (NWR) in late-2000.
Editor and Publisher

New Works Review

(Online Media industry)

March 1999 — August 2002 (3 years 6 months)

One of the most unique experiences of a lifetime.

New Works Review (NWR) is an online literary magazine founded in 1997 by a feisty social entrepreneur in her mid-70's; running the venture in the back shed of a Houston subdivision. With scant resources, she managed to recruit a staff and creative professionals to publish the magazine every quarter; never personally meeting most of the people she recruited.

I learned the internet's true power and potential through my association with the magazine.

Brian Adkins’s Education

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick

ABD , American History , 1993 — 1997
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

MA , American History , 1991 — 1992
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

BA , Political Science and History , 1985 — 1991
Milwaukee Custer High School

1981 — 1985