Jay Adelson

Current

• Chairman, CEO at Digg, Inc.
• Chairman, Founder at Revision3 Corporation

Past

• Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Equinix, Inc.

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Industry

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Jay Adelson’s Summary

Jay Adelson is the CEO of Digg, Inc. and Chairman and Founder of Revision3 Corporation.

Jay helped launch Digg, Inc. with Kevin Rose and provided business strategy to the company starting in October, 2004. He assumed the role of full time CEO officially when he resigned from Equinix, Inc. in October, 2005.

In March of 2005, Jay founded Revision3 Corporation with Kevin Rose. He hired Jim Louderback to run Revision3 as CEO in June of 2007.

Jay founded Equinix (EQIX) in 1998 with Al Avery. Jay was responsible for the original and sustaining business model which lead to Equinix becoming a multi-billion dollar international company. During his seven years at Equinix, Jay provided technical leadership as Equinix's Chief Technology Officer, designing their products, datacenters, and leading research and development. Prior to Equinix, he was one of the founders of the PAIX in 1996, before its purchase by Switch and Data in 2003. In 1993, he was one of the first employees of Netcom (USA), where he built and ran network operations.

On July 15, 2003, he testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Science and Research & Development, as part of an industry panel on "The Private Sector's Role in Keeping America's Cyberspace Secure."

http://www.digg.com
http://www.revision3.com
http://www.equinix.com
http://hsc.house.gov/files/Testimony%20Adelson.doc

Jay Adelson’s Experience

• Chairman, CEO

  Digg, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 2005 — Present (3 years 8 months)

  As Chief Executive, Jay is responsible for leading the company to execute on the vision of democratizing the media and using humans to make sense of an ever-increasing overload of information. His primary tools to achieve this are an amazingly great staff, a cell phone and video chat.

• Chairman, Founder

  Revision3 Corporation

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Media Production industry)

  March 2005 — Present (4 years 5 months)

  Jay founded Revision3 in March, 2005 with Kevin Rose to prove that the Internet could provide a viable medium for a new form of television, geared toward a new, on-demand generation. Now with the myriad of screens, computers, set top boxes, mobile devices, airplanes and more, Revision3 is the leader of Internet-based professional programming, with millions of viewers world-wide.

• Founder and Chief Technology Officer

  Equinix, Inc.

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; EQIX; Internet industry)

  June 1998 — October 2005 (7 years 5 months)

  Since founding Equinix with Al Avery in 1998, Jay Adelson provided strategic leadership and vision in keeping with the promise of the Equinix business model. As CTO, Mr. Adelson lead technology development at Equinix in support of the company's mission to build and operate the highest performance points on the Internet. Mr. Adelson was primarily responsible for the design of the Internet Business Exchange centers, as well as the design and deployment of various Equinix services to enhance customers' ability to interconnect with each other in a scalable, reliable fashion.