Adam Weinstein is President and CEO of Phipps Houses and Chairman of Phipps Neighborhoods. Together with its constituent entity boards, he guides Phipps’ overall vision, strategy, culture, growth, operations, and performance to build thriving communities. Adam’s day-to-day focus is on Phipps’ affordable housing development and operations, as well as integration of its affordable housing model with its extensive resident and community service programs. He joined the organization in 1989, becoming Vice President of Real Estate Development in 1992, Chief Operating Officer in 1995, assuming his current role in 2001. At various times in his service at Phipps, while recruiting more knowledgeable professionals, he has had temporary responsibility to head Phipps’ property management and community service affiliates. It’s safe to say that Adam has devoted his professional life to Phipps, an organization he truly loves.

Eons ago, early in his career Adam was Special Assistant to the Commissioner of Business Development in the administration of Mayor Ed Koch. He also worked in public finance investment banking at Goldman Sachs and was a management consultant at APM, Inc. He earned a BA in history from Yale College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Adam is a board member of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, the New York Housing Conference, the NYS Association for Affordable Housing, and Target Margin Theater. He has taught affordable housing courses at both of his alma maters and at City College, and has been an Adjunct Professor at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture and Planning. He is an avid reader, hiker, chef, and DIYer. A proud New Yorker, Adam lives with his wife Holly in the beautiful Bronx.