Over the past 20 years, Sam Fahmy has led high-performance teams to benchmark growth, category leadership, and massive value creation in enterprise software. Sam joined Ripcord from WorkFusion, where he headed up sales, marketing, and corporate strategy, propelling the company to category leadership and record growth. Prior to WorkFusion, Sam held executive leadership roles in sales, marketing, product strategy, and general management at Cvent, the global leader in event and hospitality technology, where he was instrumental to the company’s rise from start-up to rapid growth and multi-billion dollar valuation. Previously, he served as CEO of a VC-backed software company that he co-founded. His career has also included senior roles in investment banking, mergers and acquisitions, and consumer products. He holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from American University and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame.
Mark A. Stansberry, energy advisor and corporate development strategist, has been a columnist and contributor for Energies Media since 2014. He is the author of America Needs America’s Energy: Creating Together the People’s Energy Plan and the host of the National Energy Talk podcast. Stansberry served as U.S. Senator Bartlett’s intern/staff member from 1975-76, and led Senators Bellmon and Bartlett’s State Youth Conference in 1976. Stansberry can be contacted through his website.
