Adam Zuckerman Email & Phone Number

Potomac, Md, Us

Buried in Work simplifies the burden surrounding estate planning, when someone dies, estate transition, and probate.

Washington, Dc, Us

Originally formed to foster the entrepreneur and innovation ecosystem in the greater Washington, DC area. Now a contracting mechanism for consulting activities and speaking engagements, often focused on the impact and implementation of future-facing technologies. www.Fosterly.com | www.AdamZuckerman.comSelect Engagements:USO | March 2020 - July 2021• Key advisor facilitating the launch and growth of the award-winning USO's Military Virtual Programming ("MVP") initiative, delivering first-class entertainment to America’s servicemembers, families, and military communities around the world in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Public Democracy | January 2019 - May 2021• Key strategic advisor responsible for targeted engagement leveraging a proprietary award-winning machine learning platform comprised of one of the largest values and behavioral databases in America. Offerings focused on the nation's Opioid Epidemic), PD Veterans (e.g.; focused on Veterans issues), PD OZ (e.g.; insights related to Opportunity Zones), and others (e.g.; political and advocacy campaigns, legal recruiting and class member identification, etc...).Metropolis Studios | March 2019 - May 2020• Strategic advisor to the most successful independent recording, mastering, creative and production facility in Europe. Other: • Startup Index: Developed the DC region’s largest startup and creative economy index in 2017 and 2018. Collected more than 72,000 data points from local jurisdictions and government entities used for economic growth and planning purposes. Now replicated annually in the Greater New Orleans Region since 2019 by Tulane University.• Intern Match: Designed and implemented a recurring race / gender blind internship match connecting local university students to the DC region’s creative economy. • Curated Community Events: Conceptualize and execute dozens of events attended by over 1,500 entrepreneurs and ecosystem supporters.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Last Energy is a full-service developer of small modular nuclear power projects with a goal of transforming the nuclear power industry by dramatically reducing the time and cost of construction.

College Park, Md, Us

Adjunct professor at the University of Maryland's Hillman Entrepreneurs Program teaching Strategies for Innovation & Entrepreneurship.

New York, Us

• Venture Capital: Driving force behind the creation of the Discovery Communications Ventures strategic investments initiative. Value of portfolio investments increased more than 1,500% over three years, not including strategic benefits to Discovery. Owned the initiative's investment thesis, sourcing, and branding. • Served as Discovery's global "intrapraneur," future facing technology evangelist, and startup point of contact.• Technology Evangelist, Industry Intelligence, & Futurist: Developed a company-wide global communications initiative (online and in-person) to educate and inform employees about innovative technology offerings available for use. Served as global lead to champion Discovery’s innovative offerings to outside partners and agencies.

New York, Us

• R&D / Culture of Innovation: Identify internal and external facing innovative technology use cases and lead teams focused on rapid proof of concept to validate opportunities for emerging technologies for programming (e.g., biometrics and eye tracking, deepfakes AI, crypto-currency mining via excess resources). Assemble the Discovery Virtual Reality Task Force, which created industry leading Discovery VR. Responsible for the creation of Discovery’s first voice activation experiences (e.g., Discovery News, Shark Week, Project CAT). • Consumer Experience Lab: Ideate, create, and run an ~800 square foot lab that houses cutting edge consumer facing technologies (e.g., streaming platforms, consumer cameras, voice-controlled platforms, AR/VR, smart home, IoT, the office of the future). The lab achieves the following objectives: 1) Enables Discovery employees and select partners to keep current on technology trends; 2) Provides a wide range of devices for development and testing; 3) Promote a unique atmosphere for brainstorming and meetings. Devices from the Consumer Experience Lab are used in the Discovery content creation process.

New York, Us

Startup which created a platform offering cutting edge immersive learning experiences in virtual and augmented reality.• Created and launched an interactive virtual reality based branching tree simulation for women to negotiate contracts more effectively at the White House’s Hack the Pay Gap initiative.• Led back-end operations across multiple U.S. states, including accounting / finance, insurance, payroll, and legal. Negotiated partnerships with Harvard Business Publishing, Proteus, the American Association of University Women. Customers included American Airlines, Arizona State University, Facebook, Google, Grant Thornton, Steven Spielberg / Shoah Foundation.

For four weeks, nine Eisenhower Fellows were selected to travel throughout China, pursuing individual projects and engaging in transformative exchanges of knowledge and ideas with leading thinkers in their respective fields. On fellowship I explored the market potential of blockchain, a software platform commonly associated with tracking Bitcoin transactions, but which has the potential for many other business applications.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Legal: Negotiated complex multi-party contracts with entities including NASA, Twitter, Eloqua, Bravo, MTV, and Red Bull. Responsible for all legal matters including MOU’s, NSA’s, employee agreements and company filings.• Operations/Strategy: Conducted a due-diligence review of company-wide operations. Based on findings, interviews, and research, developed a strategic growth plan to better position the company within a highly competitive landscape. Overhauled operations by aligning cross-company interests with goals, identifying KPIs, streamlined budgets, opened first office, established D&B profile, improved company trade lines, and created standardized business processes using technology.

Inverness, Il, Us

• Legal: Negotiating partnerships, contracts and vendor agreements. Prepared regulatory filings, drafted engagement agreements and oversight exam responses. Developed compliance training materials and implemented compliance and retention platform.• Operations/Strategy: Maintained diverse operational responsibility for mid-cap hedge fund (peaking at $1.2B), investment bank and foundation. Led team responsible for transitioning technology and operations of an acquired failed bank.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

• Member of the team tasked to transition twenty newly acquired InBev and Hansen portfolio brands’ distribution rights.• Assisted wholesalers in negotiating distribution rights, reconciled payment and credit/debit issues in excess of $1,000,000.• Created, adjusted, re-routed, and tracked wholesaler orders alleviating internationally-based supply chain deficiencies.

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