Mark Adams President and Chief Executive Officer Mark joined the company in 2006 as the chief financial officer responsible for the company's financial operations and its business and operational planning functions. Mark was named CEO and president of A.D.A.M. in January 2010. Prior to joining the company, he served as chief financial officer of Miller Zell and before that he served as chief financial officer for several technology companies, including Micron Optics and Melita International, where he guided the company through its initial public offering. Mark began his career at Arthur Andersen & Co.
Rick Leach Senior Vice President and General Manager, Health Solutions Rick joined A.D.A.M. in 2008 after a diverse career working with both start-up and Fortune 100 companies in healthcare and other industries. In addition to providing strategic marketing and business development consulting services to CEOs of consumer internet and healthcare companies during the past several years, he has held executive positions that ranged from Vice President of Marketing to CEO for several start-up companies. Rick also spent five years as Vice President of Marketing and Product Management for McKesson Health Solutions. Prior to McKesson, he had product and marketing responsibility for two of the earliest nationally recognized healthcare brands: 1-800-DOCTORS and ASK-A-NURSE. Rick was one of the founders of Access Health, and helped them conduct a successful IPO. Before becoming involved in the healthcare industry, Rick spent nearly 10 years at J. Walter Thompson Company, one of the largest advertising agencies in the country.
John Lamb Senior Vice President and General Manager, Benergy Interworks John joined the company in 2010 and manages the Benergy Interworks team. Prior to joining the company, he worked for Verifications, Inc. for seven years, most notably as EVP of Marketing and Product Management where he designed and rolled out VIAM, an integrated on-boarding and employment screening solution for Human Resource professionals. During the 1990’s he worked for Melita International as Sr. VP of Strategic Marketing and Corporate Development bringing key innovations to the call center market. John has been developing and marketing software technology solutions for over thirty years in a variety of industries including telecommunications, HR and integrated business systems.
Shannon McGuire Senior Vice President and General Manager, Education Solutions Shannon joined the A.D.A.M. team in early 2007. Shannon came to A.D.A.M. with over 20 years of highly successful experience with electronic and print media products in the educational and institutional market segments. Prior to joining A.D.A.M., Shannon began her career with notable educational distributor Baker & Taylor. From there she went on to hold executive level sales and marketing positions with the leading online business information provider, Hoovers, and then as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the institutional sales channel at Ingram.