Sam Hamadeh

Who is Sam Hamadeh?

H.S. Hamadeh is a media entrepreneur based in New York with business interests in digital media, publishing, and film.

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

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. He speaks and writes frequently about entrepreneuership, including being the Keynote Speaker at Wharton's Annual Entrepreneurship Conference.

Honors and awards have included Crain’s Top Entrepreneur's Award, the Harvard Business School Club’s Entrepreneur of the Year Silicon Alley Reporter’s “100 Most Important Internet Executives” Deloitte & Touche’s 50 Fastest Growing Companies, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School's Young Alumnus of the Year award. He has also been 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.