Sam is an experienced Silicon Valley executive having scaled startups in Crypto, Telecom, and HR Tech from Seed stage to Series C as a CEO and Chief of Staff. Additionally he has served as an advisor to Venture Capital firms including SevenSevenSix and Overlooked Ventures with a focus on building diligence processes and infrastructure to support historically excluded founders. He has taught entrepreneurship at a number of organizations including most recently to a cohort through the National Federation of the Blind. He cares deeply about creating a more inclusive world through technology and in particular loves supporting founders who are raising investor capital; a passion that has him currently sitting on the board of 5 startups. He graduated with honors with his MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was the executive director of the Social Enterprise Conference, Harvard’s largest student-run conference, and he has a degree in East Asian studies from Middlebury College and speaks Mandarin Chinese.