Samuel Elder
Managing Director
Sam joined Wazee Street in January 2020 as a Managing Director. Sam is a seasoned investment professional, with approximately two decades of experience in public and private special situations across multiple asset classes.
Before joining Wazee Street, Sam was a founder and portfolio manager at Altalis Capital in New York, a hedge fund focused on event and special situations investing across equity and distressed credit securities. Prior to this, Sam was a partner at Taconic Capital Advisers, a large multi-strategy hedge fund based in New York and London. At Taconic, Sam managed significant investments across equity and distressed credit asset classes and served as Co-Head of North American Equities.
Before Taconic, Sam was a private equity investor at Vector Capital in San Francisco. At Vector, Sam acquired companies in the technology and business services sectors, with a focus on research- intensive turnarounds requiring significant operational involvement. Sam began his career as a corporate private equity investor in the Goldman Sachs Principal Investment Area (now Merchant Banking Division), evaluating and executing proprietary investments across a variety of industries.
Sam graduated from Yale University Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a dual degree in Electrical Engineering and Music.