Jay Adair (born 1969/1970) is an American

billionaire A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The American busin ...

businessman, and the chief executive officer (CEO) of

Copart Copart, Inc. or simply Copart is a global provider of online vehicle auction and remarketing services to automotive resellers such as insurance, rental car, fleet and finance companies in 11 countries; the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, Ireland, ...

, a car salvage company founded by his father-in-law,

Willis Johnson Willis J. Johnson (born 1947) is an American billionaire businessman. He is the founder and former chief executive of Copart, a vehicle salvage and auction company, founded in 1982. Biography Born in 1947, Johnson grew up on a dairy farm in the ...

. Adair started at Copart as a manager in 1989 at the age of 19. In 1998, Adair pioneered Copart's move into online auctions, and by 2003, the company put auctions 100% online. Adair has been a board member of Copart since September 1992. Adair became the CEO of Copart, taking over Willis Johnson as he stepped down, in February 2010. He owns shares in the company worth more than $800 million. Adair is married to Tammi, daughter of

, and they have two children. They own a Suisun Valley vineyard in California.

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