Sunlight Foundation

Adam Riggs builds e-commerce and new media companies, and is an active advisor to founders and entrepreneurs on product strategy, development, marketing, pricing, and general management and scaling issues. Adam served as the first President and CFO of Shutterstock.com, one of the earliest and most successful paid crowd sourcing e-commerce businesses. The company now has customers and content providers in nearly every country worldwide. Prior to Shutterstock, he was a proprietary derivatives trader for nine years. Prior to trading, Adam was an econometric researcher at the NERA division of Marsh & McLennan. He graduated from Reed College, where he is on the Alumni Board and active in career development initiatives.