Chris Adams

CHRIS ADAMS
chris@orbitmediagroup.com / +614 10 43 7770 Australia / +1 424 2222 9009 USA / @dcasurf

Chris Adams is an internationally recognized new media pioneer, entertainment executive and entrepreneur with nearly twenty years of experience in creating partnerships, programs and revenue-generating initiatives between and to the benefit of companies in media, entertainment, technology, online, agencies and brands.

Chris specializes creating and executing on deals and partnerships that result in deep impact and measurable outcomes; focusing on the intersection of distribution, content and audience and helping to bring brand visibility to consumers while creating revenue- generating programs that engage and activate.

His company, Orbit Media Group (OMg: www.orbitmediagroup.com) offers clients business acceleration and tactical revenue generation through its team of top media professionals across sales, business development, marketing and management consulting. It’s “company in a box” model helps companies achieve greater market- share, revenues and traction through speed, experience and access to decision makers and influencers.

Via OMg he serves as a Founder and North American General Manager of www.MyHeartwill.com, a site where users can protect, preserve and pass on their memories and legacy to loved ones. Additional clients include: www.Facebook.com, for which he helped to create and Produced “Facebook Diaries,” the first-ever hybrid user- generated video/reality TV show distributed on Facebook.com, Ziddio.com, Comcast VOD and the IFC Channel, to HBO to Comcast Cable and Interactive; www.Glam.com where he built GlamTV; Australian-based mobile content/payment gateway and channel aggregation company www.YuuZoo.com; www.Quickflix.com.au, the “Netflix” of Australia and www.Vimation.com, an interactive video engagement platform offering brands, advertisers and content creators the ability to broadly publish and syndicate video with all monetization and transactions traveling via share and embedding.

In 2003, Chris joined with eBay’s Jeff Skoll as Chief Vision Officer to help create Participant Media. Participant’s vision is to create entertainment that inspires audiences to make social change. Participant’s first slate of movies - Syriana, North Country, Good Night and Good Luck and the documentary Murderball – were nominated for an unprecedented 11 Academy Awards in 2005. Chris is also proud to have identified and help develop An Inconvenient Truth for former Vice President, Al Gore that, in addition to winning an Academy Award for Best Documentary, contributed to Gore being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

In 2009 he formed Adams/Kearney (www.adamskearney.com) a film development company with producing partner Steve Kearney which has offices in Los Angeles and Melbourne, Australia dedicated to celebrating Australian ideas and filmmakers at the global level and currently has three films in various stages of production.

Early in his career, Chris was already laying the groundwork for his multi-disciplinary career by achieving success as a filmmaker, writer and business/ strategic development executive. At the age of 25, Chris wrote and produced the short film, TheMiddle Passage, which went onto win 9 Best Picture Awards at various film festivals and was in competition for the 1995 Academy Award nomination. As a writer, Chris has been published in The Washington Post,The Denver Post,Triathlete Magazine, SPORT Magazine and wrote on Columbia TriStar’s/USA Network’s hour-drama “The Net.”

He then leveraged this experience into a robust consulting career performing business development and deal-making services for www.Amazon.com, www.Lycos.com, Pop.com and other online companies throughout the late 1990’s. He went on from there to help start wireless application development company, Xpherix that sold to Remoba in 2005.

Chris currently serves on the Global Advisory Board of The Global Poverty Project (www.globalpovertyproject.com), which is dedicated to eradicating extreme poverty. He is a frequent Key Note speaker with engagements at the V21/AIMIA Conference, AIMIA Connect, The TV 3.0 Conference, Digital Hollywood (both LA and NYC), CTIA, The Opportunity Green Conference, ideaCity, X-Media Labs (Wellington, NZ and Melbourne, AUS), The Screen Producers Association of Australia (SPAA) and the Screen Production and Development Conference (SPADA) in Auckland, NZ and OnHollywood Conference. He is an Advisory Board member of www.UltimateMovieSite.com, www.Splashlife.com and www.Edgevertise.com, and serves as on the Expert Panel at www.MediaWave.tv.! He is also a resident guest lecturer at Queensland University of Technology in their Creative Industries School where he is working on his second PhD.

Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Chris graduated from the University of Denver with a double major in English literature and Mass Communications. He received his MFA from USC’s School of Film and TV and his MFA/PhD with honors from USC’s School of Professional Writing, pursuing both degrees concurrently.

Chris lives in Brisbane, Australia with his wife Sharon and their son, Cooper and is an avid surfer and reader.