Founder: Orbit Media Group
Greater Los Angeles Area
- Current
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- President and CEO at Vimation, Inc
- Founding Partner at Adams/Kearney
- Founder at Orbit Media Group
- Past
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- Producer "Facebook Diaries" at Facebook
- Chief Vision Officer at Participant Media
- VP Sales at Xpherix Corporation
- Education
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- University of Southern California
- University of Southern California
- University of Denver
- Recommendations
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Chris Adams’s Summary
Chris Adams is an internationally recognized new media pioneer, entertainment industry executive and with nearly twenty years of experience in accelerating businesses within the media space.
Clients range from Facebook.com, for which he helped to create and Produced “Facebook Diaries," to HBO to Comcast Cable and Interactive, to Glam.com, Amazon.com, Lycos.com to Vimation.com.
Prior, Chris helped to build Participant Productions in 2004 with Jeff Skoll, eBay’s first President. Participant’s first slate of movies -- Syriana, starring George Clooney and Matt Damon; North Country, starring Charlize Theron; Good Night and Good Luck, starring David Strathairn and George Clooney were nominated for an unprecedented 11 Academy Awards. Chris is also proud to have identified and helped develop former Vice President Al Gore’s Oscar-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth which, along with Gore’s work, participated in his being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Chris currently serves on the Global Advisory Board of The Global Poverty Project (www.globalpovertyproject.com). He is a frequent Key Note speaker with engagements at the V21/AIMIA Conference,The AIMIA Innovation and R&D Conference, The TV 3.0 Conference,The Opportunity Green Conference, ideaCity, X Media Labs, Keynote at The Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) and the Keynote at the Screen Production and Development Conference (SPADA) in Auckland, NZ and OnHollywood Conference. He also is an Advisory Board member of www.UltimateMovieSite.com and www.Splashlife.com and serves as on the Expert Panel at www.MediaWave.tv.
Chris graduated from the University of Denver with a double major in English literature and mass communications. He received his MA from USC’s School of Film and TV and his MFA/PhD from USC’s School of Professional Writing where he pursued his degrees concurrently.
Chris lives in Brisbane, Australia with his wife Sharon and their son, Cooper and is an avid surfer.
Chris Adams’s Specialties:
Business and Strategic Development, Sales, marketing, sponsorship, revenue-generatiuon, deal negotiation and closing, networking, brand development, film financing, management, corporate development
Chris Adams’s Experience
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President and CEO
Vimation, Inc
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
January 2010 — Present (9 months)
Vimation.com is a video engagement and social syndication platform which enables content producers, networks, brands, agencies and studios the ability to create single-purpose, campaign or programatic engagement products around video. Our proprietary platform not only has elegant and organic engagement and interactivity tools, but also is a world-first and only that enables video containing ads, calls-to-action, ecomm, transactions, subscriptions of any kind to be shared, embedded, emailed, et al to any site - including Facebook, MySpace and Twitter with all monetization, ecomm, ads, et al to travel with the video - therefore no loss of monetization via social media.
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Founding Partner
Adams/Kearney
(Entertainment industry)
November 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
A motion picture company based in Los Angeles, CA and Melbourne, Australia with a goal to seek out and celebrate Australian-originated projects to the global entertainment/film industry. We currently have over 10 movies in various stages of Development and our first feature, "Jucy," which both my partner, Steve Kearney and I served as Executive Producers on, will have it's international debut at the 2010 Toronto Film Festival.
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Founder
Orbit Media Group
(Management Consulting industry)
March 2006 — Present (4 years 7 months)
Orbit Media Group provides business/strategic/corporate development, marketing and sales consulting to its clients all geared toward connecting leading industry brands around media, entertainment content and revenues. Clients include: MyHeartwill.com, Vimation.com, Budweiser, Facebook.com, Comcast, HBO, Glam.com, BornForSports.com, Stomp.com.au and Turtle Pond Productions (owned by Tribeca Film Festival co-Founder). Past clients include Amazon.com, Lycos.com, Intel, College411.com.
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Producer "Facebook Diaries"
Facebook
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
2006 — 2007 (1 year )
Developed, helped to create and Produced this first-ever hybrid user-generated content/Reality TV show with Emmy and Peabody Award-winning Producer R. J. Cutler and his Actual Reality Pictures. The series, comprising of 8 half-hour episodes, was made entirely from user-created videos from real Facebook users uploaded to the site from calls to action questions posted on Facebook about their lives, likes and dislikes, experiences, thoughts and feelings. The series was simultaneously distributed day and date on: Comcast Cable and Interactive (both their .net portal and VOD), Facebook.com and The Independent Film Channel.
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Chief Vision Officer
Participant Media
(Privately Held; Entertainment industry)
August 2003 — January 2006 (2 years 6 months)
I helped to build Participant Media (www.participantmedia.com) with eBay pioneer, Jeff Skoll based on the vision to leverage the power of media to create social change. The company's first films, "Syriana," "North Country," and "Good Night, And Good Luck" garnished 11 Academy Award and 14 Golden Globe nominations between them and "An Inconvenient Truth," garnished the 2006 Academy Award for "Best Feature Documentary" and "Best Song." The company finances films which have, at their heart, social issues and partners with non-profit groups, foundations and other social institutions to produce online social action campaign destinations wherein audiences who are inspired by the movie can go to get involved.
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VP Sales
Xpherix Corporation
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Wireless industry)
January 2001 — August 2003 (2 years 8 months)
Oversaw sales of North America, then Asia Pacific; customers included: Verizon Wireless, ALLTELL Wireless, Telstra
Chris Adams’s Education
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University of Southern California
MFA/PhD , Professional Writing/Poetry , 1993 — 1995
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University of Southern California
MFA , Film , 1991 — 1995
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University of Denver
BA , English, Mass Communications , 1985 — 1989
- Activities and Societies:
- Lamba Chi Alpha Fraternity, BACCHUS
