American 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 his late brother H.S. “Sam” Hamadeh.[7]
Hamadeh sits on the board of the non-profit PeaceWorks Foundation[8] 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[9]), Crunched, Splurgy, and PublicStuff (now part of Accela[10]).[3] Samer is also a mentor at several accelerators, including German Accelerator,[11] Lazaridis Institute,[12] 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.[13]
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.[14] He is a scout at Lightspeed Venture Partners, which he joined in January 2010 as an entrepreneur in residence.[15] He is married to the American television journalist Alison Harmelin.[16]
References
- ^ "Zeel Relaunches As The Uber For Massage With New On-Demand, Mobile Booking Service". TechCrunch. TechCrunch. April 2, 2013. Retrieved September 10, 2014.
- ^ "Taking Massage-On-Demand Nationwide, Zeel Rolls Out In Miami, LA, and SF Bay". TechCrunch. TechCrunch. August 29, 2014. Retrieved September 10, 2014.
- ^ a b c "Lightspeed Venture Partners > Samer Hamadeh".
- ^ Internship Bible, 2000 Edition. ISBN 0375754156.
- ^ "Lightspeed Adds Former Vault.com CEO Samer Hamadeh As EIR".
- ^ "Vault.com Sells Majority Stake, Gains New CEO". ERE. ERE Media. September 25, 2007. Retrieved September 10, 2014.
- ^ Bright, Becky (13 January 2016). "Sam Hamadeh, Founder of PrivCo and Vault.com, Dead at 44". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
- ^ "Making Social Entrepreneurship Matter". Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Bloomberg L.P. August 6, 2008. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Retrieved September 10, 2014.
- ^ Brustein, Joshua (September 20, 2011). "GrubHub Raises Another $50 Million, Acquires Dotmenu". The New York Times. Retrieved October 2, 2013.
- ^ "Accela Acquisition of PublicStuff Signifies Maturation of Government Tech Market". Government Technology. May 19, 2015. Retrieved September 9, 2015.
- ^ "Our Team - German Accelerator Tech". German Accelerator Tech. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
- ^ "Lazaridis Scale-Up Program | The Lazaridis Institute". lazaridisinstitute.wlu.ca. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
- ^ "The Venture For America Team".
- ^ "Samer Hamadeh Executive Profile & Biography". Archived from the original on September 11, 2014.
- ^ "Vault.com Co-Founder Hamadeh Unlocking New Web Start-Up". Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company. March 6, 2010. Retrieved September 11, 2014.
- ^ "Samer Hamadeh, Zeel Co-Founder, Looks To Alternative Medicine For A Solution". The Huffington Post. August 29, 2012. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
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