Sam is the Vice President of Transportation for LA28, the private nonprofit organizing committee responsible for delivering the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. In this role, Sam leads the Transportation Functional Area for LA28, which includes the planning, development, deployment, and operation of all Games Stakeholder fleet services and supporting operations to move athletes, technical officials, national committee members, international sport federation representatives, media, spectators, and workforce between the Games venues, accommodations, training facilities, and broadcast centers spread across Southern California, all while ensuring the day-to-day activities and commerce of the region can continue.

Sam has more than 25 years of experience in transportation cultivated through increasing levels of responsibility in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Prior to joining LA28, Sam served as the first permanent Executive Director of the nonprofit Urban Movement Labs, where he led UML’s work advancing the safe, equitable, and sustainable deployment of new transportation technologies in cities by facilitating public-private partnerships. This included a portfolio of projects and partners covering all modes of transport and use cases, from delivery robots on sidewalks to new advanced air mobility (AAM) technologies in the skies above.

Sam has served on a variety of state and federal committees shaping transportation policies, regulations, and licensure requirements. He also served as a lecturer for two undergraduate courses in Transportation Engineering and Design at the University of California, Los Angeles from 2017 through 2019. Sam holds a BS in Civil Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from the University of Southern California.  He is a licensed professional Civil and Traffic engineer in California, and lives in Pasadena with his wife and two children.