{"id":8190,"date":"2008-07-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-backed-glammedia-hires-exgoogle-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2008\/hedge-fund-backed-glammedia-hires-exgoogle-director.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Backed GlamMedia Hires ExGoogle Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- Michael Adair, former head of sales finance for Google North America is joining Glam Media Inc, a global web-publishing network, as Vice President of Corporate Development and Finance. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am excited to join Glam Media&rsquo;s executive team as we leverage Glam&rsquo;s vertical network model that it is ripe for expansion,&rdquo; said Michael Adair. &ldquo;Glam&rsquo;s focus on creating the right network model for display advertising makes them one of the most exciting companies in media today.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This newly created position involves evaluation and execution of Glam Media&rsquo;s strategic investments, corporate development and corporate finance. The company is backed by hedge fund GLG Partners, Accel Partners, DAG Ventures, and Information Capital among others. <\/p>\n<p>While at Google, Adair directed Google&rsquo;s North American sales finance team and worked closely with Google&rsquo;s president of advertising and commerce. Adair helped lead the team that managed strategic acquisitions responsible for over $3.5 billion in revenue, including dMarc, YouTube and DoubleClick.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>Editor for HedgeCo.Net<br \/>Email: <a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HedgeCo.Net is a premier hedge fund database and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/news\/07\/news\/07\/news\/01\/news\/07\/news\/07\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/06\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/05\/news\/\">www.hedgeco.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for Hedge Funds!<br \/><strong>Be sure to check out our sister sites.<\/strong> <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundlounge.com\/\">www.hedgefundlounge.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>,<\/strong> <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundtools.com\/\">www.hedgefundtools.com,<\/a><\/strong> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundemployment.com\/\"><strong>www.hedgefundemployment.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- Michael Adair, former head of sales finance for Google North America is joining Glam Media Inc, a global web-publishing network, as Vice President of Corporate Development and Finance. &ldquo;I am excited to join Glam Media&rsquo;s executive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1689,100,1687,1685,110,1690,1688,155,1686],"class_list":["post-8190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news","tag-baltimore-sun","tag-boston","tag-caxton-associates","tag-curry-co","tag-due-diligence-service","tag-john-thain","tag-leveraged-finance","tag-microsoft-corp","tag-religious-affiliation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}