Piers Adam


Piers Benedict Adam is a British businessman, the owner of London nightclubs Mahiki and Whisky Mist, and the co-owner of Mayfair's The Punch Bowl with Guy Ritchie.

Early life

Piers Adam was born in March 1964, and grew up in north London, the son of David Adam, a lawyer, and Shirley, an art teacher. He was educated at Highgate School and then Oxford Polytechnic, where he studied estate management, but failed.

Career

In 2002, he went into partnership with restrauter Marco Pierre White and fellow club owner Oscar Owide, and they combined Swallow Street's Stork Club and Crazy Horse into a new club called the Stork Rooms, but it closed six months later.
In 2014, Adam purchased the Craigellachie Hotel in the Moray village of Craigellachie.

Personal life

Adam was the best man at Guy Ritchie's wedding to Madonna at Skibo Castle in 2000.
Adam lives in Kensington with his long-term partner, model Sophie Vanacore, and their two sons.