Samer Hamadeh
{{Short description|American entrepreneur}}
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| occupation = Entrepreneur
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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{{cite news |url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/04/03/zeel-relaunches-as-the-uber-for-massage-with-new-on-demand-mobile-booking-engine/ |title=Zeel Relaunches As The Uber For Massage With New On-Demand, Mobile Booking Service |work=TechCrunch |publisher=TechCrunch |date=April 2, 2013 |access-date=September 10, 2014 }} and expanded to the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and South Florida on August 29, 2014.{{cite news |url=https://techcrunch.com/2014/08/29/taking-massage-on-demand-nationwide-zeel-rolls-out-in-miami-la-and-sf-bay/ |title=Taking Massage-On-Demand Nationwide, Zeel Rolls Out In Miami, LA, and SF Bay |work=TechCrunch |publisher=TechCrunch |date=August 29, 2014 |access-date=September 10, 2014 }}
Career
Hamadeh began his career as an associate at the Los Angeles management consulting firm L.E.K. Consulting,{{cite web |url=http://lsvp.com/team/samer-hamadeh/ |title=Lightspeed Venture Partners > Samer Hamadeh}} 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.{{cite book |title=Internship Bible, 2000 Edition|isbn=0375754156 }}
In 1996, Hamadeh co-founded Vault.com and served as CEO{{cite web |url=http://pevc.dowjones.com/article?pid=32&an=DJFVW00020100305e6380012x&ReturnUrl=http%3a%2f%2fpevc.dowjones.com%2farticle%3fpid%3d32%26an%3dDJFVW00020100305e6380012x |title=Lightspeed Adds Former Vault.com CEO Samer Hamadeh As EIR}} until the company was sold to the New York private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson in October 2007.{{cite news |url=http://www.ere.net/2007/09/25/vaultcom-sells-majority-stake-gains-new-ceo/ |title=Vault.com Sells Majority Stake, Gains New CEO |work=ERE |publisher=ERE Media|date=September 25, 2007 |access-date=September 10, 2014 }} His Vault.com co-founders were Mark Oldman and his late brother H.S. “Sam” Hamadeh.{{cite news |last1=Bright |first1=Becky |title=Sam Hamadeh, Founder of PrivCo and Vault.com, Dead at 44 |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/sam-hamadeh-founder-of-privco-and-vault-com-is-dead-at-44-1452727939 |access-date=16 July 2021 |work=The Wall Street Journal |date=13 January 2016}}
Hamadeh sits on the board of the non-profit PeaceWorks Foundation{{cite news |url=http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2008-08-06/making-social-entrepreneurship-matterbusinessweek-business-news-stock-market-and-financial-advice |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104011837/http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2008-08-06/making-social-entrepreneurship-matterbusinessweek-business-news-stock-market-and-financial-advice |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 4, 2012 |title=Making Social Entrepreneurship Matter |work=Bloomberg BusinessWeek |publisher=Bloomberg L.P. |date=August 6, 2008 |access-date=September 10, 2014 }} 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{{cite news|last=Brustein|first=Joshua|title=GrubHub Raises Another $50 Million, Acquires Dotmenu|url=http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/grubhub-raises-another-50-million-acquires-dotmenu/|access-date=October 2, 2013|work=The New York Times|date=September 20, 2011}}), Crunched, Splurgy, and PublicStuff (now part of Accela{{cite news |url=http://www.govtech.com/products/Accela-Acquisition-of-PublicStuff-Signifies-Maturation-of-Government-Tech-Market.html |title=Accela Acquisition of PublicStuff Signifies Maturation of Government Tech Market |work=Government Technology |date=May 19, 2015 |access-date=September 9, 2015 }}). Samer is also a mentor at several accelerators, including German Accelerator,{{Cite news|url=https://germanaccelerator.tech/about-us/our-team/|title=Our Team - German Accelerator Tech|work=German Accelerator Tech|access-date=2018-08-12|language=en-US}} Lazaridis Institute,{{Cite web|url=https://lazaridisinstitute.wlu.ca/programs/scale-up/index.html|title=Lazaridis Scale-Up Program {{!}} The Lazaridis Institute|website=lazaridisinstitute.wlu.ca|access-date=2018-08-12}} Blueprint Health, NYCSeedStart, and First Growth Venture Network, as well as a member of Young Presidents' Organization and the Executive Board of Venture for America.{{cite web |url=http://ventureforamerica.org/team/ |title=The Venture For America Team}}
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.{{cite web |url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=604627&privcapId=144422938
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|title=Samer Hamadeh Executive Profile & Biography}} He is a scout at Lightspeed Venture Partners, which he joined in January 2010 as an entrepreneur in residence.{{cite news |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2010/03/06/vaultcom-co-founder-hamadeh-unlocking-new-web-start-up/ |title=Vault.com Co-Founder Hamadeh Unlocking New Web Start-Up |work=Wall Street Journal |publisher=Dow Jones & Company |date=March 6, 2010 |access-date=September 11, 2014 }} He is married to the American television journalist Alison Harmelin.{{cite news |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/27/samer-hamadeh-zeel-alternative-medicine_n_1832948.html |title=Samer Hamadeh, Zeel Co-Founder, Looks To Alternative Medicine For A Solution |work=The Huffington Post |date=August 29, 2012 |access-date=August 29, 2015}}
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