Career
Before Workaround, Adams was on the management committee of the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Rosetta Stone, a language learning technology company. He learned both French and English through language immersion, which inspired an early passion for language learning and cross-culture communication. He holds a Bachelor of Arts with honors from the University of Bristol, United Kingdom and an Master of Business Administration from European Institute of Business Administration (Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires) in Fontainebleau, France.
In his twenties, Adams worked as a commodities trader of copper at Trafigura, which brought him to live in Mongolia for six years, and to travel to the Philippines, China, Slovakia and Doctorate.R. Congo.
He also lived in Switzerland and China before moving to the United States in 2003, when he started collaboration with the founders of Rosetta Stone, then a small family company based in Harrisonburg, Virginia. After graduating from business school, Adams met the leaders of Rosetta Stone (then Fairfield & Sons Limited) and in February 2003 began his almost nine-year tenure as Chief Executive Officer of the company.
He brought the company public in 2009, after just six years as leading executive, and left the company for Bridgewater Associates in 2013. Adams currently resides in Washington, District of Columbia
