Adam is a principal and founder of Headwaters Strategies, a dynamic public affairs consulting firm in Denver, Colorado. An experienced strategist, Adam has extensive expertise in civil justice, regulatory, and natural resource issues.

Before founding Headwaters Strategies in 2009, Adam concurrently served as the deputy legislative director for Governor Bill Ritter and the director of policy, external affairs, and planning at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

Adam came to the Ritter Administration from the Western Conservation Foundation, having served as the foundation’s first executive director from April of 2005. From 1999 until March 2005, Adam served as the associate national director of the Trust for Public Land’s (TPL) conservation finance program, where he helped to pass measures providing more than $14 billion in parks and open space capital funding. Prior to his appointment with TPL, Adam served as a strategic communications consultant with a private Denver-based firm. A political and nonprofit veteran, Adam has been involved in hundreds of legislative, ballot measure, and candidate campaigns at the local, state, and national level. A graduate of the University of Colorado, Adam is a fourth-generation Coloradoan and currently lives in Denver wife his wife and two young children.