Samuel Cole is a Managing Principal at Stonecutter Ventures where he focuses on building companies across industries, from robotics, fintech, and defense to consumer brands, commodities and manufacturing. Before co-founding Stonecutter Ventures, Sam founded and built two technology companies, served as the Chief Operating Officer, Co-Head of Trading and a Managing Principal for BlueMountain Capital Management, a multi-billion dollar asset manager, and was an Associate Principal in the Financial Institutions Group of McKinsey & Co. in New York. Sam began his career as a defense analyst with the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis and as an analyst for Global Partner Ventures in the former Soviet Union where he supported projects to commercialize Russian defense technologies. He serves on the NYC Governing Board of Success Academy Charter Schools, a New York City-based charter network of 45 schools and 20,000 students, and was formerly its Chairman. He is also a member of the Board and Executive Committee of Business Executives for National Security (BENS). He was a 4-year Division 1 wrestler at Harvard and team captain.

MBA, MIT (Sloan School of Management)

MA, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University

BA in Government with Honors, Harvard University