Sam Hamadeh

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H.S. ("Sam") Hamadeh is a media entrepreneur based in New York with business interests in digital media, publishing, and film.[1]

Hamadeh co-founded VAULT.com in 1997 [2] and served as the company’s President through its successful sale in 2007 to a major private equity firm, reportedly for nearly $100 Million. [3] He reportedly remains a significant minority shareholder of VAULT.[citation needed]

Hamadeh is a graduate of UCLA, the University of Pennsylvania Law School with a JD, and holds a MBA from the Wharton School of Business.[4] He speaks and writes frequently about entrepreneuership, including being the Keynote Speaker at Wharton's Annual Entrepreneurship Conference.[5]

Honors and awards have included Crain’s Top Entrepreneur's Award,[6] the Harvard Business School Club’s Entrepreneur of the Year[7] Silicon Alley Reporter’s “100 Most Important Internet Executives”[8] Deloitte & Touche’s 50 Fastest Growing Companies,[9] and the University of Pennsylvania Law School's Young Alumnus of the Year award.[10] He has also been an Executive Producer of several notable films, including Home Movie[11] starring Adrian Pasdar, and Made For Each Other[12] starring Chris Masterson, Danny Masterson, and Bijou Phillips.[13]

Hamadeh's prominent charitable activities include supporting the charity Right to Play, which sets up sports and athletic programs for children in the world's war-torn areas, recently hosting a major benefit in New York City attended by prominent Olympic medalists and New York Governor David Paterson, raising over $50,000 from just this event.[14]

References

  1. ↑ http://duckduckgo.com/c/Wharton_School_alumni
  2. ↑ http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1623
  3. ↑ http://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2013/02/14/sam-hamadehs-privco-can-get-private.html?page=all
  4. ↑ http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1623
  5. ↑ http://www.forbes.com/2006/12/15/shopzilla-adozu-vonage-ent-fin-cx_kw_1215wharton.html
  6. ↑ http://mycrains.crainsnewyork.com/small_business_awards/years/2005
  7. ↑ http://www.whartondc.com/article.html?aid=790
  8. ↑ http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/9/last-call-for-silicon-alley-100-submissions-vote-now
  9. ↑ http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-65535477.html
  10. ↑ {http://edict.law.upenn.edu/alumni/alumnijournal/fall2002/department5/page03.html
  11. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1267319/
  12. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1051241/
  13. ↑ http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/brotherly_love_for_bijou_phillips_nGrsYP0HIB6eEmGXAsZqHM
  14. ↑ http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/take_that_Nbtn5a8BBlzCOKRH3GegHL

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