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Adam has a long track record of founding, launching and building innovative and successful companies. Prior to co-founding IndexIQ, Adam was Associate Publisher of the Time Inc. Business & Finance Network, which includes Fortune, Money, Business 2.0, and Fortune Small Business magazines, as well as the CNNMONEY.com financial information portal. Prior to this role, Adam was Executive Director, Marketing Strategy & Brand Development, for Fortune and Fortune Small Business Magazines, and Group Director of New Business Ventures for the Fortune/Money Group. Adam's experience in the world of indexing dates back to his leadership roles with Fortune Indexes, a premier indexing business that was an early entrant in the Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF) industry. Under Adam's leadership, the Fortune Indexes business unit of Time Inc. grew to become a leading indexing operation, where Adam oversaw the growth of ETF products based on Fortune-derived methodologies. A serial entrepreneur, Adam was President and Founder of ThreadeXchange, a venture backed supply chain software company that built solutions for the global procurement needs of the apparel and textile industries. ThreadeXchange, which developed a global factory network covering 52 countries with over $10 billion in production capacity, along with a sophisticated production optimization engine matching retailers with those factories, was financed by Redleaf Group (an affiliate of Safeguard Scientific), Garage Technology Ventures and other strategic investors. At ThreadeXchange, Adam became a leading voice of change in an industry with outdated business practices and an inefficient supply chain. Prior to this, Adam was President and Founder of Force Industries Communications, a systems integration and process reengineering consultancy. Built on the principles of Michael Hammer's book Reengineering the Corporation, Adam built a firm that successfully serviced the middle market that was largely ignored by the larger firms of the day. Adam also was Founder and President of Target Market, a marketing firm that created advertising vehicles for local businesses targeting nearby college campuses. Adam previously served as Director of BlueCar Partners, a merchant bank focused on M&A, restructurings and strategic control investments, an investment banker at Salomon Smith Barney and a credit trained executive at Fleet Financial Group. Adam holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management with a triple major in Finance, Marketing and Entrepreneurship & Innovation, where he was a Kaufman Fellows Finalist, and a B.S. in Finance from University at Albany. | 