Adam Podber Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York City, Ny, Us

As modern digital platforms become the center of how we operate and critical to our ways of working, PVH has been hard at work, creating a strategic vision that focuses on enabling our community with a fit-for-purpose set of digital capabilities/dexterity that maximizes our investments & supports our continued growth. The Global Digital Experience & Enablement team focuses on just that, co-creating the right tools & experiences with our associates that become evangelized & continually adopted. Our teams utilize the latest cloud capabilities and generative AI to bring PVH's workforce into the future. Global Digital Experience & Enablement frameworks/methodologies provide measurable and continuous value for a wide & global landscape of platforms, driving an intuitive approach, and unlocking the best that our technologies offer, and hyper-focusing on the users that engage with those platforms.

New York City, Ny, Us

Leading a global team that brings about digital transformation/innovation, digital content creation/management, commerce platforms, and process. The designer of ‘Digital JumpStart’, a program that fosters disruption in the fashion space with modern software development methods, minimizing time to value, building for the customer outcomes, and establishing an always learning culture that is empowering and focused on quality and speed of product value. ✔ DIGITAL JUMPSTART: Establishing lean teams that are focused on value-added & measurable digital products.- Implemented PVH's Product Mindset in order to create a culture of Listening/Responding- Delivered rapid prototyping methodologies to Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger globally - Created augmented reality consumer app - Created a digital table that allows consumers to socialize the natural process of mixing and matching outfits- Developed a platform in which chat style lookup of inventory, size, and product information could be shown to customers in their native language ✔ GLOBAL DIGITAL COMMERCE: Revamping the way that PVH listens to our Consumers through coaching the global organization via creating & operating a living strategy that responds to our ever changing Consumer behaviors through meaningful and scalable Digital Experiences.✔ DIGITAL EXPERIENCE: Taking an inside-out approach, coached existing teams developing processes that achieve customer and associate focused results steering far from “tech for tech sake” in our methods. Using working backward practices, the teams work first on the personas for whom we are helping, curating media worthy press releases and customer-facing FAQ’s, helping to simplify the goal of any project. - Implementing Global Digital Asset Management Program - Partnering & Leading PVH's Digital Culture through our App/Web/In Store/Social Platforms

New York, Us

Born from Equinox, Blink Fitness is a premium quality, value-based fitness brand with locations open or in development throughout the United States.The company is focused on breaking the value fitness paradigm with a differentiated product offering that emphasizes Mood Above Muscle™, which celebrates the positive feeling you get from exercise, not just the physical benefits.I was recruited as the head of technology & member of the executive leadership team to think outside the box leveraging technology as a tool to drive membership growth and retention allowing the company to rapidly expand its franchise base.Coming from the hospitality industry, I have brought a focus on the customer experience. Over the last four years, I have made a significant impact in the following areas:✔ TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION … Designed and launched solutions such as a stand-alone membership kiosk and new digital products that streamlined the membership sales process.✔ FRANCHISE SUPPORT… Created a Franchise Development System that provided a framework for the company to grow nationally.✔ TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT… Recruited, trained, developed and mentored teams of technical talent to drive the organization’s expansion into new markets and maintain the high-value customer service to both members and franchisees.Technology utilized: • Product business intelligence systems (Adobe Omniture, Test & Target, Tableau, ERP - Netsuite, Epicor, Dynamix)• Grow the capabilities of digital/data driven marketing systems (SalesForce CRM & Marketing Cloud, Teradata)• Franchise business development and management systems(Fran Connect, SaaS POS)• Offshore/Onshore digital product development (Agile Scrum, SDLC)• Unattended technologies(Kiosk) • Member experience tools (Attribution & Retention systems)• Automated Support Systems(Zen Desk, Site Remote, SMS, Okta, EmpowerID)• Infrastructure Systems(VM-Ware, Cisco networking, AWS, IP Telephony, Cloud based storage, Thin Client)

Bliss is a leading spa and skin care brand with branded urban spas worldwide, including in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, and Hong Kong. Bliss was owned by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide until 2010 when it was purchased by its current owner, Steiner Leisure. Bliss continually strives to innovate and provide unique treatments to the consumer. Product innovation at Bliss is linked to its spa services and the in-spa products consumers experience as part of their treatments. Bliss spas serve as market research and development laboratories, allowing Bliss to design its services and products in tandemAs the Head of IT, I was given a unique opportunity to expand my career from technology to business operations and integrated marketing. This experience has translated into working with the other Steiner brands to forward their technology platforms showing positive revenue on customer facing initiatives.✔ PROJECT EXECUTION … Orchestrated a wide range of projects for partners that included Marriott, Starwood, Hilton, Hyatt and various boutique hotel brands, assisting with everything from new build design to major system upgrades.✔ PROGRAM MANAGEMENT… Worked closely with senior partners to launch new programs that included a successful loyalty program, massive improvements to the E-commerce platform and major upgrades to the POS technology.✔ BUSINESS INSIGHTS… Expanded the role from a singular technology focus, becoming a valued business partner to help partners understand how to design and capitalize on technology to drive sales and customer experience.

Ramsey, Nj, Us

As a Senior Consultant, I was given the opportunity to forge new project leadership skills and provide a virtual CIO role to different types of businesses in different industries. It gave me the experience of having to do not just technology-related projects, but also budget management, team management, and most importantly, learn how to work effectively with different types of companies, clients and cohorts.

Manager of a company in public funded school technology projects. Generated on average 11mm in sales.

New York, Ny, Us

Created and administered corporate disaster recovery network environment for Provident Financial Management (AMEX tax and business company).

Computer Engineering

Leading Effective, Culturally Diverse Teams

Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies