Sam Stein brings a career’s worth of technology‑enabled growth experience to ALSA Research, where he oversees commercial strategy, sponsor engagement, and the digital patient‑recruitment engine that powers our multi‑site network. Before joining ALSA as a second‑generation partner in 2024, Sam spent more than 15 years scaling software companies that sit squarely in the life‑sciences R&D continuum.

He most recently served as Senior Vice President of Marketing at DNAnexus, helping global pharma and academic groups adopt the Precision Health Data Cloud to manage and analyze multiomic and clinical data. Earlier, Sam served as Head of Americas and APAC at ArisGlobal, guiding the adoption of its LifeSphere drug‑development platform by hundreds of customers across the Americas, Europe, and Asia‑Pacific. Previously, he also managed a the Life Sciences vertical at Exela Technologies, where he introduced digital‑workflow solutions to Fortune 500 life‑science clients.

Sam holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson and a B.A. in Middle Eastern History with a minor in Corporate Strategy from Vanderbilt University.