Prior to his current role at BEAM, Samir was most recently the Executive Director of Training Grounds, a startup within Cloud9 offering coaching, life skill development and game training for young esports athletes. Prior to his work at Cloud9, Samir served as Chief Program Officer for Teach for America Bay Area, and prior to that, he co-founded the nonprofit Mastery Design Collaborative (MDC) to support school systems in designing personalized education models for student learning. Samir has also served as a manager at Deloitte Consulting LLP, leading change management initiatives within companies undergoing M&As or tech transformations. He earned his MBA from The University of California, Berkeley and has a dual degree in chemical engineering and liberal arts from the University of Texas, Austin. He currently resides in Austin, TX with his two sons, Sanjay and Sai.