Jay Adams, President and Owner of Adams, Inc. His background includes being a graduate from Iowa State University at Ames, IA with a degree in Agricultural Business in 1979. After briefly farming and later training as an Agricultural Loan Officer in banking, he founded Adams, Inc. in January 1983. The company has grown from one to over 24 employees. Jay successfully passed the certification test issued by the National Association of Personnel Services in order to become a CPC (Certified Personnel Consultant).

Adams, Inc. is a privately held, national search firm specializing in the recruitment and placement of qualified professionals in banking, general financial, trust, and credit card industries. Adams has been in existence since 1983 and is the largest niche search firm of its kind maintaining a database of close to 80,000 banking candidates. We offer a consultative approach delivering a high degree of worth as measured against our core values of integrity, discretion, quality, and reliability. Our staff consists of 19 recruiters, tracking over 4,000 job openings that have come open within the last 12 months. We’ve made placements in the banking market space by conducting searches for top performers earning in the $50,000 to $500,000 base salary range. Adams also maintains an internet web site that has all of our active search assignments listed and is updated daily. Another service we offer, and as far as we know we are the only search firm in the country that is doing this, is that we also act as an intermediary to put buyers and sellers of banks, trust departments, and insurance agencies together in merger discussions. This is another service that we provide that brings extra value to owners and stockholders of financial institutions in addition to our regular executive search activities. We also offer outside consulting services to banks and financial institutions we come into contact with in areas such as credit, loan workout, wealth management, merger/acquisition, compliance, Sarbanes Oxley, operations, strategic planning, and human resources. Jay can be reached at 800-536-4933 X102.