Management Team
Dr. Howard Sichel
Executive Vice President of APOGEE Wellness and President & CEO of Power Pilates, Dr. Howard Sichel is a leader in the Pilates industry and driving force in bringing Pilates into the health and fitness mainstream. In the 20 years since its founding, Power Pilates has become the leader in classical Pilates education with over 110 Training Centers in 10 countries supported by more than 7,000 Power Pilates trained instructors.
Susan Moran
Susan Moran, Senior Vice President of Power Pilates, brings a varied background of professional dance, massage therapy and Pilates training to her work. During her ten years with Doug Elkins Dancers, she won the coveted Bessie Award. Susan’s intense involvement in the dance community allows her to bring a knowledge and understanding of stress-related injuries to Power Pilates, which enables her to devise the proper Pilates therapy for their treatment...
Bob Liekens
Bob Liekens, originally from Belgium, traveled to New York City in 1983 to further explore his dance career. That same year he started his Pilates training at The Pilates studio. In 1986 Romana Kryzanowska invited him to teach the Pilates Method at her studio. He has been teaching under her inspiration since. Fascinated with the Graham technique, he continued to pursue studies at the Graham Center for Contemporary Dance...
Kathy Moran
Kathy Moran, Vice President, Educational Programming at Power Pilates, is a native New Yorker. She moved to Scottsdale, Arizona in 1989 to attend Arizona State University and in 1993 completed her last semester abroad in London, England at Richmond College, where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Intercultural Communication...
Travis Pagel
Travis Pagel, VP of Marketing moved to New York to study at Wagner College where he received degrees in English and minors in Communication and Business and Economics. Travis spent several years working within the music industry for Thorn-EMI Music International based out of London and EMI Records as manager of Corporate Communications in New York...
