Samer Salty

Samer has over twenty years of experience in venture capital, investment banking and technology in Europe and the United States.

Samer co-founded zouk in 1999 and has successfully raised two technology venture funds including Cleantech Europe. Samer has considerable management experience and has spent the last seven years building zouk and many of the firm’s current portfolio companies including a leading carbon emissions company.

Samer currently sits on the Board of Orb Energy and YAC Ltd and was on the Board of Mondus Ltd (Seat Pagine Gialle S.p.A.), Peoplesound (Vitaminic S.p.A.) and IntelligentApps (SAGE).

Prior to founding zouk, Samer worked on M&A and private equity transactions within the Telecom, Media and Technology Group at J.P. Morgan. He was also head of Global Markets for the Middle East region at J.P. Morgan, structuring large corporate finance and derivatives transactions with institutional clients.

Before investment banking, Samer spent seven years designing and implementing communications and computer systems for the FAA of the US Government and a number of other international Civil Aviation Authorities. He also led and managed large FAA projects while at Martin Marietta and worked both directly and as a consultant for AT&T, Lockheed, and Hughes Aircraft.

Samer holds a B.S. in Electronic Engineering specialising in fibre optic from Cal Poly and a M.S. in Finance from MIT. He is a member of the International Council of the Kennedy School Belfer Centre at Harvard University.