James Adamson is an American business man who has served as CEO of Burger King

Burger King

Burger King, often abbreviated as BK, is a global chain of hamburger fast food restaurants headquartered in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. The company began in 1953 as Insta-Burger King, a Jacksonville, Florida-based restaurant chain...

 (1993–1995), CEO and Chairman of Denny's

Denny's

Denny's is a full-service coffee shop/family restaurant chain. It operates over 1,500 restaurants in the United States , Canada, Curaçao, Costa Rica, Honduras, Jamaica, Japan , Mexico, New Zealand, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.Denny's is known for always being...

 and its parent company Advantica

BG Group

BG Group plc is a global oil and gas company headquartered in Reading, United Kingdom. It has operations in 25 countries across Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, North America and South America and produces around 680,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. It has a major Liquefied Natural Gas ...

 (1993–2002), and K-Mart (2002–2003).

He is noted as a turnaround specialist having helped restructure of drugstore chain Revco

Revco

Revco Discount Drug Stores , once based in Twinsburg, Ohio, was a major drug store chain operating through the Ohio Valley, the Mid-Atlantic states, and the Southeastern United States. The chain's stock was traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker RXR...

 after its purchase by CVS Caremark

CVS Caremark

CVS Caremark Corporation is an integrated pharmacy services provider, combining a United States pharmaceutical services company with a U.S. pharmacy chain...

in 1997. He was instrumental in restoring Denny's reputation after a series of racial incents occurred at several of its stores during the mid-1990s. He was given the position of K-Mart CEO in an attempt to swing the company's finances around in March 2002.