Sam Schatz

Managing Director + Global Head of Farm Development

Sam Schatz, Managing Director + Global Head of Farm Development for AeroFarms, joined as an investor and first employee after the company founders in 2012. The company has since grown to over 150 employees and operates the world’s largest vertical farm in Newark, NJ. Sam leads the company’s expansion to new markets and other strategic initiatives and is an Advisor to the St. Louis based AgTech accelerator The Yield Lab.

Previous experience includes Berlin based Wermuth Asset Management where he advised on investments into privately-held clean technology companies and London-based Active Earth Investments where he led investment into listed mining and mid-cap industrial companies with a focus on environmental stewardship and socially responsible business practices. Sam is a recipient of the Alfa Fellowship and received his Masters from the London School of Economics where he was the President and Founder of the Graduate Management Society and his Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University where he served on the Student Advisory Board to the Columbia University Earth Institute.