Sam Sezak

North Haven Capital is a family office backed private investment group that invests in growth stage healthcare technology and service firms and lower middle market ($1MM EBITDA and above) family and owner-operator businesses in New England. As a group of seasoned entrepreneurs and investment professionals, we provide capital resources and proprietary networks to help businesses achieve growth and profitability potential, maximizing stakeholder value. With our long-term investment horizon, we focus primarily on control acquisitions.

Red Bear Angels is an active investment group primarily focused on investing in companies founded or led by Cornell University alumni, faculty, and students. We provide strategic capital, industry expertise, mentorship, and active support to entrepreneurs through our broad network.

GOALS is a non-profit organization that uses soccer in Haiti to engage kids in community work and education that improve their quality of life and develop new leadership. Programs include after-school activities, competitive soccer clubs, summer camps, workshops, and high school scholarships.

Sam brings significant experience investing in, working with, and assisting to grow high growth companies. Sam is responsible for managing STARC’s healthcare strategy, national account presence, and emerging market opportunities.

Blue Heron Capital is a private equity firm focused on growth equity and lower market buyout opportunities in healthcare and tech enabled services sectors. We bring a talented group of operating professionals with decades of experience building and managing companies.

New Vantage Group (NVG) is a Washington, DC area venture group. NVG managed early stage venture funds and several angel investment networks that have invested more than $50 million in dozens of firms primarily in the mid-Atlantic. NVG has advised entrepreneurs, students, and other angel groups, published several books, developed workshops, and helped to grow the early-stage investing industry by co-creating national and international non-profit institutions. Widely regarded as a thought leader in the industry, NVG has implemented several different investing models, always with the same mission: to spur economic development by increasing funding sources for innovative, early-stage ventures.

Conceived of and implemented a series of business educational workshops for high school students around the country. Developed and delivered customer service training programs for hotel and restaurant managers. Worked with government officials and local entrepreneurs to organize multiple marketing cooperatives.