Alberto perlman biography

Alberto Perlman

Alberto Perlman is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Zumba Fitness, LLC, the largest branded dance-fitness company in the world. The global lifestyle brand fuses fitness, entertainment and culture into a dance-party experience and has more than 14 million weekly participants in 140,000 locations across 185+ countries. Perlman oversees day-to-day operations, manages brand and product development, and negotiates strategic partnerships with fitness clubs and organizations around the world.

Having celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2011, the Zumba® program has grown from a single class taught in a Miami gym into a global movement. Under Perlman's leadership, the company experienced growth of nearly 800 percent from 2009-2012, developing into a multi-faceted brand that offers a unique and popular fitness program, as well as a continuing-education program that enables instructors to deliver Zumba Fitness to an international audience.

Perlman has forged partnerships between Zumba Fitness and brands that include Kellogg's, The American Heart Association®

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    “Originally we thought we were selling fun fitness, and it is still the reason people enjoy Zumba.  But throughout the years we have realized it is much deeper.”
    ~ Alberto Perlman, CEO / Co-Founder Zumba Fitness


    LG: As a trendsetter and trend spotter, what was the defining moment that led you to envision, create this amazingly successful dance workout phenomenon?

    AP: I think that having a vision is a bit hyperbolic. People have taken the word “vision” and added so much weight to it that it has become intimidating. I prefer the word imagination. All my cousins, my mom, my future wife and everyone else in Aventura, Florida was taking Beto Perez’s dance fitness class in 2001, and at my mom’s suggestion I went to see it. It wasn’t even called Zumba at that time. He called it Rumbacise. What I saw was fitness without sacrifice. What I saw was a group of people dancing their hearts out and smiling all the way through it. All I could think to myself was “Why is this class not famous around the world?.” The first thing I thought of was selling VHS tapes of his class via i

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