Meet The Advisory Council
Alex Pincus
Alex Pincus is an award-winning architect, James Beard nominated restaurateur, and dedicated preservationist.
Along with his brother Miles, Alex has created multiple celebrated bars and restaurants in New York and New Orleans including Grand Banks, Seaworthy, Holywater, Pilot, High Tide , Island Oyster, Fairweather, and Drift In. He is CEO of their family-owned hospitality and maritime operations group, Crew, and he also serves on the board of directors for the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit Billion Oyster Project and the leadership council of the World Ocean School. In addition to their hospitality projects, Crew operates Tribeca's Pier 25 Marina, Brooklyn’s Pier 6 Wharf, and the historic vessel restoration facility Heritage Marine Works.
Alex is currently directing the restoration of Coronet, America’s oldest yacht (built in 1885), and is working to find a permanent home for New York's last surviving oyster barge (built in 1830).
Prior to co-founding Crew, Alex led Bureau V, a New York City–based architecture firm that he co-founded in 2007, and Atlantic Yachting, a sailing school and charter company he co-founded in 2006.
Alex won the Honor Award for Excellence in Design at Columbia University, where he received his master’s degree in architecture. Before Columbia, he studied architecture at the University of Virginia and anthropology at New York University and the University of California at Santa Cruz. Alex has taught architecture at Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Kentucky, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has been a lecturer and juror at leading architecture schools worldwide, and his design work has been recognized by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Wallpaper, among many others.
In his younger years Alex was an avid whitewater kayaker, was a member of the U.S. Junior Canoe and Kayak Team and U.S. Olympic Training Team, and made several first descents of unchartered rivers throughout the world. These days he is an easy-going sailor and beginning surfer. He is also a Kentucky Colonel and a Fellow of Royal Canadian Geographical Society.