10 Questions with Gene D'Adamo

10 QUESTIONS WITH

GENE D’ADAMO

1. Has philanthropy always been a part of your life?

I was assigned as a loan executive for United Way and remember going on a tour of Sojourner Center, which is a domestic violence shelter that at this time was in downtown Phoenix. That was an epiphany for me. I went back after three months at United Way to the Arizona Republic and said I wanted to move from marketing and sales into community relations. I always volunteered; I always knew there were issues. I just never knew the scope of the issues until I did that.