Sam has over 30 years of financial consulting and investment management experience. He began his career with Ernst & Young, auditing the investment portfolios of banks and insurance companies before his client base expanded to include venture capital, private equity, and real estate investment managers. Since graduate school, Sam has held titles such as CFO, Managing Director, and CEO of investment firms managing as much as $4 billion in a wide variety of vehicles including mutual funds, hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds, funds-of-funds, and secondary funds. He has invested in practically every asset class, but has spent the majority of his career focused on small capitalization and emerging companies. Sam earned his bachelor's degree magna cum laude from Loyola College where he was named a President's Scholar and he earned his master's degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University where he was named an FC Austin Scholar. He is also a licensed CPA in the State of Maryland.