Sam is a seasoned executive with significant experience in private equity, investment banking, restructuring, turnarounds, and operational management while at Millennium Technology Value Partners, The Blackstone Group, Salomon Brothers, StorageApps and several other technology companies.
In total, he has completed more than 300 transactions involving in excess of $50 billion of principal investments, mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, and debt and equity financings.
Sam is a frequent speaker and commentator on the need for innovation within the private equity ecosystem. Under his leadership, Millennium has become a recognized leader and pioneer of the secondary market for venture capital and growth equity assets. Since 2001, Sam has served as a trusted partner and advisor to many of the world's leading technology companies and their shareholders as they have considered growth financings, debt capital and alternate liquidity solutions.
Sam is responsible for Millennium’s investments in companies that include Facebook, Alibaba, Aurora, Chegg, Twitter, Sunrun, NetSpend, and Zappos, among others.
Sam earned his Master of Business Administration from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science from Lehigh University. Sam is a board member of Pilatus Owners and Pilots Association and has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
