As an Associate at Pequot Ventures, a venture capital firm, "I spend a lot of my time with the senior management of companies we might invest in or in which we've already invested." Sam identifies and pursues opportunities to invest in technology companies, helps his fund's portfolio companies with finance, strategy, and business development, and manages projects that create value for the fund or the portfolio, such as developing a coherent offshore services strategy for a cluster of financial technology companies in which his fund has invested.

"My work with Katzenbach Partners equipped me to deal with a significant degree of ambiguity, by giving me the ability to put processes and concrete analytical structures around business problems, make chains of reasonable assumptions, and interpolate to create information where no information existed before. Moreover, I developed the ability to communicate effectively with people at different levels within an organization-a skill that's critical in my current work. Because Katzenbach creates opportunities for interaction with senior management early on in one's career, after several years of work experience at Katzenbach I feel comfortable working with people who have significantly more experience and knowledge than I do, and I know how to engage them appropriately. Coming from Katzenbach, I feel equally comfortable with the organizational, financial, and strategic aspects of developing sound companies."