Sam Hamadeh

Hussam ("Sam") Hamadeh was a media entrepreneur based in New York with business interests in digital media, publishing, and film. He died on December 10, 2015.[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] In 2009, Hamadeh founded PrivCo, which provides data to subscribers on more than 500,000 private companies; he served as chief executive of PrivCo until his death in December 2015 and in that capacity, also regularly commented on private companies for the mass media.[4] [5] [6] [7]

Hamadeh was a graduate of UCLA, the University of Pennsylvania Law School with a JD, and the Wharton School of Business with an MBA.[8] He spoke and wrote frequently about entrepreneurship, including serving as the Keynote Speaker at Wharton's Annual Entrepreneurship Conference.[9]

Honors and awards have included Crain’s Top Entrepreneur's Award,[10] the Harvard Business School Club’s Entrepreneur of the Year[11] Silicon Alley Reporter’s “100 Most Important Internet Executives”[12] Deloitte & Touche’s 50 Fastest Growing Companies,[13] and the University of Pennsylvania Law School's Young Alumnus of the Year award.[14] He also was an Executive Producer of several notable films, including Home Movie starring Adrian Pasdar, and Made For Each Other starring Chris Masterson, Danny Masterson, and Bijou Phillips.[15]

Hamadeh's prominent charitable activities included 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.[16]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.wsj.com/articles/sam-hamadeh-founder-of-privco-and-vault-com-is-dead-at-44-1452727939
  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://www.wsj.com/articles/sam-hamadeh-founder-of-privco-and-vault-com-is-dead-at-44-1452727939
  5. ↑ http://www.cnbc.com/2014/04/14/weibo-will-blow-away-its-numbers-privco-ceo-sam-hamadeh.html
  6. ↑ http://money.cnn.com/2015/11/23/technology/tech-bust-private-market/
  7. ↑ http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ipo-pullback-20151114-story.html
  8. ↑ http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1623
  9. ↑ http://www.forbes.com/2006/12/15/shopzilla-adozu-vonage-ent-fin-cx_kw_1215wharton.html
  10. ↑ http://mycrains.crainsnewyork.com/small_business_awards/years/2005
  11. ↑ http://www.whartondc.com/article.html?aid=790
  12. ↑ http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/9/last-call-for-silicon-alley-100-submissions-vote-now
  13. ↑ http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-65535477.html
  14. ↑ {http://edict.law.upenn.edu/alumni/alumnijournal/fall2002/department5/page03.html
  15. ↑ http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/brotherly_love_for_bijou_phillips_nGrsYP0HIB6eEmGXAsZqHM
  16. ↑ http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/take_that_Nbtn5a8BBlzCOKRH3GegHL

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