Samer Hamadeh

Samer Hamadeh
Born Fresno, California, USA
Alma mater Stanford University
Occupation Entrepreneur

Samer Hamadeh is an American entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of the on-demand wellness company Zeel and co-founder and former CEO of Vault.com. The first Zeel service, Massage On Demand®, and its associated iOS and Android apps, was launched in the greater New York City area on April 2, 2013[1] and expanded to the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and South Florida on August 29, 2014.[2]

Career

Hamadeh began his career as an associate at the Los Angeles management consulting firm L.E.K. Consulting,[3] where he focused on corporate and business strategy. Before that, he co-founded and managed a customized textbook printing company, worked at Chevron Corporation, and co-authored The Internship Bible and America’s Top Internships published by Random House's Princeton Review imprint.[4]

In 1996, Hamadeh co-founded Vault.com and served as CEO[5] until the company was sold to the New York private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson in October 2007.[6] His Vault.com co-founders were Mark Oldman and H.S. “Sam” Hamadeh.

Hamadeh sits on the board of the non-profit PeaceWorks Foundation[7] and is or has been a board observer, angel investor and advisor in two dozen early-stage companies, including Directly, Campusfood.com (sold to GrubHub Seamless[8]), Crunched, Splurgy, and PublicStuff (now part of Accela[9]).[3] Samer is also a mentor at several accelerators, including Blueprint Health, NYCSeedStart, and First Growth Venture Network, as well as a member of Young Presidents' Organization[3] and the Executive Board of Venture For America.[10]

Personal life

Hamadeh holds a Bachelor Of Science degree in chemistry and a Master of Science degree in chemical engineering from Stanford University and is a David Rockefeller Fellow.[11] He is an entrepreneur in residence at Lightspeed Venture Partners, which he joined in January 2010.[12] He is married to the American television journalist Alison Harmelin.[13]


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