Seed Media Group: Team

Management

Adam Bly
Founder, CEO and Editor-in-Chief

Adam Bly is the founder and CEO of Seed, a leading global media and technology company committed to advancing science and its potential to improve the state of the world.

Adam began his career at the age of 16 as the youngest researcher at the National Research Council of Canada, where he spent three years studying cancer. Following his research, Adam set out to launch Seed, a new type of science magazine for a new 21st century scientific renaissance. “The best comparison for Seed,” wrote a media critic, “is the early years of Rolling Stone, when music was less a subject than a lens for viewing culture.” Under Adam’s leadership, Seed has received two National Magazine Award nominations, for Best Design and General Excellence, the magazine industry’s highest honor, and has formed partnerships with the Museum of Modern Art and the World Economic Forum. The magazine’s mission has been extended to other platforms – from software to data visualization – and markets – from Europe to Brazil.

In 2007, Adam was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He is a recipient of the Golden Jubilee Medal from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and his achievements have been highlighted by former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, “for showing people the scope and power of science not just as an object of study but as a key to understanding the world around us.” 

He has spoken around the world on the new relationship between science and society, most notably at the World Economic Forum (Davos), STS Forum (Kyoto), Royal Society (London), OECD-MOST Conference (Beijing), The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (Mexico City), National Academy of Sciences (Washington), ideaCity (Toronto), and MoMA (New York), and at universities including MIT, Harvard, Columbia, McGill, and Peking. He has served on the nominating committees and juries of the Buckminster Fuller Challenge, the Earth Award, and the TED Prize, and sits on the Executive Committee of the American Committee for Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science, the Communications Advisory Board of the US National Academy of Sciences, and the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Innovation.

Born in Montreal, he currently lives in New York City.