MANAGEMENT TEAM

Hank Adams - Chief Executive Officer

Hank Adams is the Chief Executive Officer of Sportvision, Inc., a position he assumed in December 2002, after the merger of Sportvision and Ignite Sports, a company which Adams founded in January 1999. Sportvision is a leader in sports content creation and enhancement. In the last year alone, the company has produced live enhancements seen by more than 100 million people on over 500 live television shows ranging from the Super Bowl to the World Series. Sportvision also creates original content for wireless, online and gaming platforms, such as the Emmy Award-winning PitCommand product on NASCAR.com.

Sportvision has forever altered the sports landscape with its iconic products such as the virtual yellow 1st and Ten™ Line for football, KZone™ for baseball, PitCommand™ for NASCAR, and the “Glowing Puck” for the NHL. The Company’s innovations have been widely praised in the media. Sportvision was credited by the Sports Business Journal with developing eight of the top 20 sports TV broadcast innovations since the first live TV sports broadcasts in 1939. The Yellow 1st and Ten was rated as the 7th greatest innovation on ESPN’s Top 100 Innovations in sports. Sportvision has won eight Emmy Awards, two Horizon Awards and a Bandie for the best interactive TV product.

In addition to building three successful companies, Hank was awarded Sports Business Journal’s Top Forty under Forty of sports executives in 2002 and Crain’s Chicago Business, Forty Under Forty in 1999. Sportvision was a winner of the Ernst and Young Illinois High Tech Award in 2003, as well as being named a Deloitte and Touche Fast Fifty winner (50 fastest growing companies) multiple times. Prior to founding Ignite, Adams was a co-founder and CEO of Real Fans Sports Network. Adams built Real Fans into a sports destination site with a focus on "sports from the fans’ perspective." In 1997, America Online bought Real Fans. Adams remained CEO of Real Fans while at AOL, and the Company became the house brand for AOL.com Sports. He subsequently spun the company out from AOL to form Ignite.

Previously, Adams worked for Peterson Consulting in Chicago and London as a financial consultant. Adams earned an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Colorado with a BA in History and a BS in Finance.