Mr. Theodore A. Adams III is an Entrepreneur and Philanthropist. He is President of Unified Industries Incorporated, an engineering services company that was founded in 1970. He is also Founder and President of Red Zeppelin Productions LLC, a film and entertainment company based in Fairfax, Virginia.
Mr. Adams has a legacy of community service. He is Co-Founder and Chairman of the Stan Lee Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting literacy, arts, and education. He also founded and runs Unified Empowerment Inc., and non-profit organization dedicated to education and to finding employment opportunities for persons with severe disabilities.
Mr. Adams is a two-time Ironman Finisher and received certification as a USAT Certified Triathlon Coach. When swimming, biking and running aren’t enough Mr. Adams enjoys martial arts as a Black Belt in Taekwondo, dancing through the clouds as a licensed pilot, or picking up the Didgeridoo to drone the night away. He has studied multiple languages including: German, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog, and Japanese. Mr. Adams embodies the Renaissance Man.
Mr. Adams has had an interest in making movies since he was a child. Literally a rocket scientist, he earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University and his Masters of Business Administration from UCLA. Mr. Adams also completed post graduate studies at the Yale-China Program at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and is a graduate of Harvard Business School.
At no point during his academic career did Mr. Adams consider a career in film, but rather focused on engineering and business. It was his business acumen that made his dream of movie making a reality. Othello-san was his Directorial debut. He won Artist of the Year and Best Director for his work on that film.
Mr. Adams put pen to paper and jotted down a few notes, and started to mold the story that was the genius of the award-winning and best-selling feature film, TRI, and numerous award-winning short films including Othello-san, Sweet Distraction and The Charles Effect. Mr. Adams is a registered member of the Writers Guild of America East and SAG-AFTRA.
It takes more than creativity to make movies; it takes a strong sense of business and connections that come with it. Mr. Adams’s engineering company, Unified Industries Inc. (UII), has an outstanding reputation of providing high-quality engineering consultation services and products to government agencies and commercial customers. Dedicated to excellence, UII’s expertise of logistics, engineering, training, information technology, metrology, calibration, and quality assurance has allotted us the opportunity to fulfill over 650 contractual obligations. UII supports some of the most sophisticated weapons platforms for the US and UK Navies.
For his latest venture, Mr Adams is launching his own streaming network called The Laurel Channel. The Laurel Channel will provide a platform dedicated to presenting films that have won awards at vetted film festivals from around the world. Film Festivals, Filmmakers, and Actors will be able to showcase their events and work on a unique channel that allows the viewers to discover more information about the productions and artists with access to behind the scenes footage, interviews, reviews and links to filmmaker and actor show reels.