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Live events
Hyperglow begins
Adam's professional record identifies him as part of Hyperglow's founding and operations team. The concept combined electronic music, ultraviolet production, live art, and a touring event format.
Explore this chapter2013—Present
Ten years of building, operating, and adapting.
A selected chronology of Adam Zak's professional work, grounded in public event archives, company records, a federal trademark filing, restaurant listings, operating materials, and documented professional sessions.
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This is a professional chronology, not a claim that every year produced a separate company or headline. It highlights the periods where the record shows meaningful operating work and states the evidence at the level it currently supports.
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Public footprint
The tour enters the public record
Songkick listings document Hyperglow dates at Stage 48 in New York and Starland Ballroom in New Jersey. ABC News also quoted HyperGlow Tour LLC in contemporaneous national coverage that April.
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Tour operations
Repeat venues and wider reach
Public listings show bookings across New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, including the Wellmont Theater, Palladium, Pacha NYC, Mullins Center, and Sherman Theater. Co-billed artists included Steve Aoki, Laidback Luke, Brillz, and Ghastly.
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Events and hospitality
An international connection and a new operating chapter
Moroccan publication Welovebuzz identified Adam in connection with Holi Festival Morocco and referenced its relationship to the Hyperglow concept. In the United States, the PIZZA CRAVE trademark record reports first commercial use in December 2017.
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Restaurants
Pizza Crave expands in New Jersey
Adam says he owned and operated the Pizza Crave locations during the brand's New Jersey expansion. Public company and restaurant records document locations in Colonia, Clark, and Teaneck, while the supplied operating archive preserves brand, launch, insurance, merchant, and marketing materials.
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Restaurant systems
Testing more output from shared infrastructure
Inside Pizza Crave, Adam developed takeout-focused menu concepts that could operate through existing kitchen infrastructure. The work is presented here as a specific multi-brand restaurant experiment—not as a claim to have invented the broader ghost-kitchen category.
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Packaging
Express Custom Packaging
A packaging problem experienced inside the restaurant business became a new company. Adam's supplied operating record identifies him as the founder and operator of Express Custom Packaging, a New Jersey provider of custom paper bags, boxes, and restaurant packaging.
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Operating infrastructure
Building the system behind the product
The surviving company archive documents sales scripts, pricing, estimates, invoices, production schedules, inventory, warehouse responsibilities, dispatch, delivery, CRM procedures, hiring materials, and marketing assets—evidence of an operating organization rather than only a brand concept.
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New tools
Turning toward AI, data, and design
Adam expanded his working focus into AI-assisted workflows, data products, digital design, and the translation of technical issues into commercial decisions. These capabilities built on the same systems thinking developed through his operating companies.
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Consulting
Operating experience becomes an advisory advantage
Recorded professional sessions document Adam demonstrating sample-led prospecting, packaging mockups, sales training, and ideas for AI-assisted customer acquisition. His current focus connects business strategy, sales systems, data, design, and practical AI adoption.
Explore this chapterA living public record
Specific enough to check.
The source archive contains selected ticketing histories, independent press, location records, a trademark filing, and first-party operating materials. As original records are recovered and verified, the timeline can become more precise without overstating what the current evidence proves.
Review the public recordFrom history to useful work
The experience connects.
See how Adam translates operating lessons into consulting for founders and growing teams.
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