Sam is a driven business owner, community leader, and bookworm. He earned degrees from the University of Wisconsin (Go Badgers) and Johns Hopkins University, where he taught undergraduate writing and digital media courses while learning firsthand from many of the most renowned contemporary English language writers. These days, when Sam isn't helping businesses and organizations across Wisconsin's 72 counties, he's partnering with leaders at F500 companies whose technologies power the operation and evolution of economies worldwide.Sam is also a member of the following organizations:- Dane Buy Local (Board & Membership Committee Member)- Downtown Madison Inc. (Economic Development Committee Member)- Main Street Alliance- Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce- Middleton Chamber of Commerce- The Wisconsin LGBT Chamber- Forward 48Currently, Sam is reading:- High-Profit Prospecting, by Mark Hunter, CSP- The Politics of Resentment, by Katherine J Cramer- The Culture Map, by Erin Meyer- Dubliners, by James Joyce- The History of Capitalism in America, by Adrian Wooldridge and Alan Greenspan