Adam is president and of the Jack Parker Corporation-New York, a real estate development firm and the grandson of the late Jack Parker, founder of the Jack Parker Corporation and proprietor of Le Parker Meridien Hotel in New York City and the Parker Palm Springs in California. Mr. Parker was internationally renowned for his real estate development throughout the eastern United States. Mr. Parker's obituary from the New York Times suggests he was extraordinarily wealthy and philanthropic. To continue his legacy of giving, Adam and his mother, Mrs. Nancy Magoon, his grandmother, Norma Parker and aunt, Jane Parker, support a number of charitable organizations through the Norjana Charitable Foundation. Adam is president of the Norjana Charitable Foundation, which is based in Ft. Meyers, Florida and gives primarily to ballet, higher education, environmental conservation, and human services and some funding also to juvenile diabetes organizations.
In addition, he is managing director of the hedge fund Tesuji Partners, LLC and co-founder of the Floating University which aims to create courses online like its first course "Great Big Ideas." Great Big Ideas is an introduction to the world's most important ideas in a variety of disciplines, including psychology, economics, biomedical research, linguistics, history, cosmology, politics, globalization, and statistics. The courses are offered at Yale University and CUNY and Harvard.
Adam is the author of A Child's Guide fo Money, a composer, and a playwright. He is on the board of advisors of the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy at New York University. He formerly sat on the boards of the Dalton School, the 92nd St. Y, and the Hebrew Free Loan Society. He is a former trustee of the Citizens Budget Committee, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civic organization whose mission is to achieve constructive change in the finances and services of New York City and New York State government.
Married to Denise Scruton, they reside in New York City. Son, Noah, attended the University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences as a freshman history major for one semester. They also have a daughter, Zoe Glick.
