Samer Hamadeh

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]

Samer Hamadeh
Born
Fresno, California, USA
Alma materStanford University
OccupationEntrepreneur

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 German Accelerator,[10] Lazaridis Institute,[11] 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.[12]

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.[13] He is a scout at Lightspeed Venture Partners, which he joined in January 2010 as an entrepreneur in residence.[14] He is married to the American television journalist Alison Harmelin.[15]

References
  1. "Zeel Relaunches As The Uber For Massage With New On-Demand, Mobile Booking Service". TechCrunch. TechCrunch. April 2, 2013. Retrieved September 10, 2014.
  2. "Taking Massage-On-Demand Nationwide, Zeel Rolls Out In Miami, LA, and SF Bay". TechCrunch. TechCrunch. August 29, 2014. Retrieved September 10, 2014.
  3. "Lightspeed Venture Partners > Samer Hamadeh".
  4. "Internship Bible, 2000 Edition".
  5. "Lightspeed Adds Former Vault.com CEO Samer Hamadeh As EIR".
  6. "Vault.com Sells Majority Stake, Gains New CEO". ERE. ERE Media. September 25, 2007. Retrieved September 10, 2014.
  7. "Making Social Entrepreneurship Matter". Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Bloomberg L.P. August 6, 2008. Retrieved September 10, 2014.
  8. Brustein, Joshua (September 20, 2011). "GrubHub Raises Another $50 Million, Acquires Dotmenu". The New York Times. Retrieved October 2, 2013.
  9. "Accela Acquisition of PublicStuff Signifies Maturation of Government Tech Market". Government Technology. May 19, 2015. Retrieved September 9, 2015.
  10. "Our Team - German Accelerator Tech". German Accelerator Tech. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  11. "Lazaridis Scale-Up Program | The Lazaridis Institute". lazaridisinstitute.wlu.ca. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  12. "The Venture For America Team".
  13. "Samer Hamadeh Executive Profile & Biography".
  14. "Vault.com Co-Founder Hamadeh Unlocking New Web Start-Up". Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company. March 6, 2010. Retrieved September 11, 2014.
  15. "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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