He was dubbed "the dean of corporate Chief Privacy Officers" by Interactive Week Magazine, first creating that title and position in 1999 at Internet advertising company AllAdvantage.

A year later, he published his first article, writing for the Westview (a Nashville area community newspaper) and detailing his experiences as a youthful cracker of various early online services and WATS systems.

[11] He was also the Vice President for Public Policy at AllAdvantage, where he managed lobbying and government relations, including the first piece of anti-spam legislation ever passed by the United States House of Representatives.

[12] In April 2000, Everett orchestrated a visit from then-President Bill Clinton as the keynote speaker at a $1.1 Million fundraising event celebrating AllAdvantage's first anniversary.

While he has spent considerable time working with Internet start-up ventures in Silicon Valley,[22] his consulting clients have included many large global organizations such as Pharmacia, Pfizer, Kimberly-Clark, Intuit, Aventis, Household/HSBC, Microsoft, the National Association of Home Builders, Ericsson, Comcast, Pandora Radio, Kia Motors, ExxonMobil, Fujifilm, Kellogg's, Mattel, Mondelez, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Toyota, and Yum!