Adam Rogers is a tech veteran with more than 20 years experience leading SaaS organizations to achieve rapid innovation, profitability, and market share dominance. His career began as Ultimate Software’s first intern and he quickly became a leading innovator in the field, pioneering the very first multi-tenant Enterprise SaaS solution and scaling. it to more than $1.4B in recurring revenue. As CTO and eventually CEO, Adam consistently brought new advancements to the Human Capital Management market, including AI, predictive and prescriptive analytics, natural language processing, and mobile technologies. His steadfast commitment to putting people first nurtured an award-winning culture (#2 on Fortune’s Best Places to Work in his final year as CEO) with employee retention consistently >95%. After he and his team grew Ultimate’s stock from $3 to $330, Adam guided an $11B take-private deal in 2019 and a $22B merger one year later. Adam currently serves as a venture partner for Next Coast Ventures, leveraging his robust product, operations, and talent expertise to advise organizations on turning proof to concept, driving value through technology, go-to-market strategy, and a focus on company culture to fuel rapid growth.
