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Adam Healey, Novela Founder & CEO
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Adam Raymond Healey (born in Rome, Italy) is an Internet entrepreneur.

Adam is the Founder & CEO of Novela, a software platform serving the wedding industry. [1]

Previously, he was the co-founder & CEO of Borrowed & Blue, a web site serving the wedding industry, based in Charlottesville, Virginia, that was founded in 2011 and sold to Zola in 2017. [2]

Before that, Healey was the co-founder & CEO of hotelicopter, a hotel meta-search engine that he sold in 2011 to Room Key, a consortium of the six largest hotel chains in the world. [3] [4]

The hotel search engine hotelicopter (previously called VibeAgent) was featured by The Washington Post , [5] Forbes , [6] MSNBC, [7] and USA Today . [8]

He launched his first web startup, Samba Digital Media, in Prague in 1999 at the age of 24, where he built the company into one of the largest e-services firms in Central Europe. [9]

Healey is also a frequent lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia, and serves on the board of the local startup hub HackCville. [10] [11] [ failed verification ]

In 2013 Healey was named one of the ‘Top 50 Entrepreneurs’ in Virginia by the Center for Innovative Technology. [12] Healey was also featured in Entrepreneur magazine's April 2008 issue about entrepreneurs with MBAs. [13]

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