Larry J. Adams, a University of Montevallo alumnus who graduated in 1981 summa cum laude, returned to his alma mater recently to speak to more than 100 students in UM’s Michael E. Stephens College of Business. His topic was “My Story, My Business, My Advice.”
Adams spent his career in the insurance industry, holding several executive positions with Protective Life Insurance, based in Birmingham, and Ohio National in Cincinnati. In 2013, Adams and his wife, Celia Adams, UM class of 1982, relocated to Alabama to be near family and so that Adams could become executive vice president and chief operating officer of Petra Life Services, a consulting firm based in Birmingham.