Board Member

KEN PODZIBA
President & Chief Executive Officer
Bike New York


Ken Podziba is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Bike New York, a nonprofit organization that produces the TD Five Boro Bike Tour, the world’s biggest charitable ride, and Bike Expo New York, the country’s most-attended consumer bike show.  Ken is most proud of the tremendous growth of Bike New York’s education program - the largest of its kind in the country - and the success of its recently launched advocacy program.  Additionally, Bike New York operates the Recycle-A-Bicycle shop in Brooklyn and Bike Library located at Shirley Chisholm State Park.

Prior to joining Bike New York, Ken served as the New York City Sports Commissioner for 12 years.  Prior to that he served as Deputy Commissioner/Chief Financial Officer of the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission, Assistant Commissioner of the NYC Department of Youth & Community Development and urban planner for the NYC Department of Housing Preservation & Development.

He earned an MS from Columbia University’s School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, and a BS from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications and Whitman School of Management.