Public Bio
With a career spanning clean energy, tech, and transportation, Sam serves as an Commercial Lead at long-duration energy storage company Cache Energy, and Advisor to sustainable datacenter developer QScale. He previously served as VP at EV charging infrastructure startups Gage Zero and TeraWatt. Prior to that, he was the Director of Sustainability at Lyft, where he built the program from the ground up and led the company to make the industry-leading commitment to 100% electric vehicles by 2030. Before Lyft, Sam spent 10 years at Google, where he mapped Google's carbon footprint and led the program to negotiate the renewable energy purchases that resulted in Google's achievement of 100% renewable energy in 2017. Sam earned a BA in Physics from Williams College and an MS in Energy and Resources from UC Berkeley, where his research focused on wind energy and plug-in vehicles, respectively.