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Samuel H. Schwartz President, Comcast Interactive Capital Executive Vice President, Strategy and Development Comcast Interactive Media |
Sam Schwartz is President and a Founding Managing Partner of Comcast Interactive Capital (CIC), a $350 million venture capital fund affiliated with Comcast Corporation, a diversified global leader in cable television, broadband services, telecommunications, and programming. CIC's goals are to generate financial returns from venture investments in private technology companies and to seek strategic benefits for Comcast through those partnerships. Sam leads CIC and also focuses on broadband and interactive technologies.
Sam is also Executive Vice President of Strategy & Development at Comcast Interactive Media (CIM), a new division dedicated to developing and growing Comcast’s emerging Internet businesses, including the comcast.net site. Sam also advises and participates at Comcast on strategic issues related to new products, technology and important trends.
Prior to joining Comcast in March of 1999, Sam spent time as an investor in communications and software companies. Prior to his work in venture capital, Sam was a Manager at The Boston Consulting Group and a consultant at Booz, Allen & Hamilton. Sam began his career as a software engineer.
Sam holds a Master of Business Administration in Finance from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, graduating as a Palmer Scholar, and received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering & Applied Science.