Sam is the Vice President, Global Strategic Partnerships at the END Fund. He is responsible for managing long-term engagement strategies and deepening institutional trust with the organization’s most important global partners. Principal among these are the pharmaceutical companies whose drug donations the END Fund raises capital to deliver. In previous roles, Sam founded the organization’s public affairs division and incubated sustainable public and private sector health financing initiatives that continue to this day. He is also a regular public speaker on behalf of the END Fund.
Before joining the END Fund, Sam was the Executive Director, International Programs at the M∙A∙C AIDS Fund, the largest philanthropic investment vehicle of the Estée Lauder Companies. In this role he oversaw a grant portfolio that supported 130 HIV/AIDS service organizations across 50 countries, and co-created public private partnerships that reached over 26 million people affected by HIV/AIDS.
Prior to that, Sam was the Chief Development Officer for a leading sport-for-development organization, Grassroot Soccer, and the Chief Operating Officer for Millennium Promise, a delivery partner to Columbia University’s Earth Institute. Sam was also Global Operations Manager at the Clinton Health Access Initiative where he helped establish the organization’s health financing division and was seconded to several African Ministries of Health to develop tools and build operational capacity for drug procurement and supply chain optimization.
Sam holds a BA in Economics from the University of Strathclyde in his native Scotland, and an MSc in Development Economics from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies. He continues to mentor students at both universities and has taught at Hunter College – City University of New York. Sam also served on the Board of Directors as Chair of the Development Committee for the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, and has been an advisor in various capacities to the World Health Organization, Policy Cures Research, Global Citizen, and We Are Family Foundation. Sam lives in Portugal with his wife and two children where he enjoys running, surfing, and playing music and football with his kids.