Growth Partner

Sam has over 13 years’ experience in strategic communications, philanthropy management, and advising businesses on ESG matters. Sam is an experienced Non-Executive Director, currently serving as Vice Chair of Tylorstown Welfare Hall, Board Member of Ty Hafan Children’s Hospice, Director of Crackerjackpot Ltd (a charitable lottery business) and Grants Panellist for Welsh Government-funded programmes with the Wales Council for Voluntary Action. Sam has delivered online and in-person accredited AAT and CIPD training to businesses and civic organisations in the UK and Africa.

In recent years Sam has helped to lead UK non-profit organisation Business in the Community’s place-based regeneration programme ‘Pride of Place’, overseeing growth in income and influence by convening business, government, and charity leaders to help drive socioeconomic change for some of the UK’s poorest communities. This work has been endorsed by the UK Government, and recognised in receptions at the House of Lords, Holyrood (Scottish Parliament) and Y Senedd (Welsh Parliament).

In previous roles, Sam has managed successful programmes in London and Wales to boost employability for young people, support communities experiencing long-term deprivation, and create new inclusive opportunities for children, families, and older people to earn, learn, and thrive. Sam holds a CIPD Diploma in Human Resource Management, a Politics of Population, Migration & Ecology MSc from Birkbeck, University of London, a BA(Hons) in English Literature from Queen Mary, University of London, and an International Baccalaureate Diploma.