Adam is an expert in the branded space with a focus on all matters related to the consumer, including luxury, accessories, retail, apparel, beauty, art and design, digital & media, food & beverages, wellness, real estate and wealth management. Through private equity partnerships he has led and/or sponsored since 2002, Adam has invested in over a dozen privately-held companies (including seven acquisitions) with a combined $600 million in sales and over $250 mil- lion of contributed equity invested capital, while also forming and serving on the Board of Directors, or Advisory Boards, of each company. In 2002, Adam founded Circle Peak Capital LLC, a private investment merchant banking partnership based in NYC he still manages today and which has served tens of limited partners with over $50 million of invested capital over time.

Earlier in his career, Adam served as a principal at two leading private equity firms based in New York City, Caxton-Iseman Capi- tal, an affiliate of Caxton Associates, one of the world’s legendary alternative investment organizations (founded 1993), and Castle Harlan, Inc. (founded 1987) each holding over $2 billion in aggregate managed equity capital. Adam was the first employee and instrumental in the success of a global emerging markets (half a billion) dollar hedge fund formed in 1996, Columbus Advisors LLC by the heads of Merrill Lynch emerging markets. Adam started his career on Wall Street in 1993, holding positions at top firms in- cluding Salomon Brothers Inc., J.P. Morgan, and Lehman Brothers Inc. After Salomon Brothers, Adam earned an MBA in 1998 with high honors (Beta Gamma Sigma) from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University (CBSGSB), and a BA cum laude in International Relations and Economics from Boston University.

Adam is an active alumnus of CBSGSB, a founding board member of the CBSGSB Private Equity Advisory Board, and a founder in 1996 of the school’s now legendary Investment Management Conference. In addition to his role as Founder and CEO of his three primary holdings, Circle Peak Capital LLC, Big Sky Partners LLC, and Family Office Private Advisors LLC, Adam is involved in several companies, including a special advisor to Rocket Dog Holdings LLC (since 2006), Stride Capital LLC (since 2010), and was recently appointed to the Advisory Board of the NY Tech Fashion Lab, a collaboration with the Partnership Fund for New York City and leading fashion organizations.

Adam is married with two boys, and is active in the arts, design, and is an avid collector. Adam has been a host, patron and / or sponsor of numerous arts related events including the International Fine Art and Antique Show, Weill Carnegie Recital Hall, The Avenue Show, and has been an amateur classical pianist since the age of 5. Adam is an active philanthropist, active in the Museum of Arts and Design, Tanenbaum Center, Leukemia Fighters at Weill Cornell College, and recently joined the Board of Directors of the Original Music Workshop (National Sawdust) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

He is responsible for all of Alberleen’s principal merchant banking and direct investing activities, and for determining the overall investment strategy for the firm. Adam holds a BA degree from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.