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Adam Zak

Entrepreneur · Operator · Consultant

New Jersey, United StatesProject inquiries LinkedIn

Profile

Hands-on entrepreneur and operator with more than a decade of experience across live events, hospitality, custom packaging, sales systems, marketing, data, design, and applied AI. Builds practical connections between customer experience and the workflows behind it. Particularly effective at turning loosely connected business activity into a clearer offer, process, operating system, or decision tool.

Selected experience

Selected experience

Independent operator and consultant

2025—Present

Business systems · Sales · Data · Design · AI-assisted workflows

  • Translates operating problems into practical workflows, training materials, sales tools, and customer-experience improvements.
  • Frames technical debt and platform risk in commercial terms that business leaders can evaluate.
  • Develops structured sales materials covering positioning, product comparison, objections, outreach, and team enablement.
  • Demonstrates sample-led prospecting and AI-assisted customer-acquisition concepts grounded in prior operating experience.

Founder and operator · Express Custom Packaging

From 2021

Custom paper bags, boxes, and restaurant packaging · New Jersey

  • Built the company around a packaging-access problem encountered as a restaurant owner.
  • Developed an operating organization spanning pricing, estimates, invoicing, sales orders, production scheduling, inventory, warehousing, dispatch, delivery, CRM, hiring, and marketing.
  • Used personalized mockups and physical samples to help prospects visualize their own brand and move from outreach into a sales conversation.
  • Created procedures and training materials to make the sales and fulfillment process more repeatable.

Owner and operator · Pizza Crave

From 2018

Restaurant ownership and multi-location operations · New Jersey

  • Worked across brand, menus, marketing, digital ordering, and the operating systems behind the restaurant concept.
  • Public company and restaurant records document Pizza Crave operations in Colonia, Clark, and Teaneck.
  • Filed the federal PIZZA CRAVE trademark application; the public record reports first commercial use in December 2017.
  • Developed takeout-focused menu concepts that could operate through shared kitchen infrastructure.

Founding and operations team · Hyperglow

2013—2018

Touring electronic-music event production

  • Supported the early development and operations of a New Jersey-based touring glow-event brand.
  • Built experience across venue coordination, production, promotion, audience experience, and tour execution.
  • Public archives document 28 event listings during Adam's stated role period, with repeat bookings at established venues in multiple states.
  • Documented bills included nationally known artists such as Steve Aoki, Laidback Luke, Brillz, Ghastly, Party Favor, 4B, and Cookie Monsta.

Selected public proof

A checkable professional history.

Event history

Songkick, Ticketmaster, venue archives, and independent reporting document Hyperglow's touring footprint.

Restaurant record

A federal trademark filing and third-party location records support the Pizza Crave history.

Operating archive

Company records document Express Custom Packaging's connected sales, production, warehouse, and delivery systems.

Review sources and limits

Approved media biography

Short bio

Adam Zak is a New Jersey entrepreneur, operator, and consultant whose work spans touring live events, restaurant ownership, custom packaging, sales systems, data, design, and AI-assisted workflows. He was part of Hyperglow's founding and operations team, led and expanded Pizza Crave operations in New Jersey, and founded Express Custom Packaging. Today he applies those hands-on lessons to help founders and growing teams build clearer offers, stronger operating systems, and more useful customer experiences.