Sam co-founded d.light designs in 2007 and served as the company’s founding CEO. During his tenure as CEO, he raised over USD11 million in funding, started the India sales and marketing division, and oversaw multiple product launches including the award-winning S250 and S10. As a result of his leadership, Sam has been selected as an Ashoka Fellow and World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. Prior to d.light, he founded and managed multiple ventures in Africa, including improved agriculture and construction businesses, a for-profit NGO cultivating the miracle tree Moringa oleifera, and the distribution of low-cost latrines, cook stoves and rain water catchment cisterns. Sam has lived in Cameroon, Mauritania, Pakistan, Peru, India, Rwanda, Canada, Hong Kong, and the USA.
After graduating with degrees in Biology and Environmental Studies from the University of Victoria, Canada, he earned an MBA from Stanford.
