Sam Bowles is a managing director at New Republic Capital and a member of the board of directors of New Republic Partners. Sam brings extensive expertise and experience in the areas of private equity, investment management, capital markets, and mergers and acquisitions.His prior experience includes roles as a managing director of Threadridge Investment Partners, a fully integrated single family office and holding company, and as a principal at Carousel Capital where he sourced and executed private equity transactions and monitored portfolio companies.  Sam also worked at Morgan Stanley in the mergers & acquisitions group in New York.He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School.Sam currently serves on the boards of the UNC Healthcare System where he serves as chairman of the finance committee, the Greater Charlotte Cultural Trust, the Endowment for the Mint Museum where he serves as chairman, the endowment of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church where he serves as chairman of the investment committee, and the Kenan-Flagler Business School.