Sam career started at US Naval Academy & Maine Maritime as an Engineering Officer. He worked for over 2 decades in aviation industry as the GM of global sales for the military fighter jets, small commercial aircrafts, helicopters, maintenance & aftermarket services.

Sam’s professional roadmap includes working as a Sr. executive in the Defense, Aerospace, Power, Energy, Education, Sustainability and Business Management Consulting industries. Those include roles such as a Sr. adviser at  Siemens Canada on Smart Grid business transformation & Change Management, New Brunswick Power & Toronto Hydro on Energy Conservation programs, Southern California Edison, Southern California Gas, San Diego Gas & Electric on Demand Side Management programs.

Sam has a degree in Marine Engineering from USN/Maine Maritime, a BS in Mechanical Engineering, a MS & a PhD in Industrial Engineering from Northeastern University in Boston Massachusetts.

Sam academic experience includes teaching assignments at US Army, Northeastern University, University of California, University of Toronto, TMU (Ryerson) and McMaster university.

Sam has over 30 professional certifications & diplomas including Professional Engineer (PE), Engineering Leadership Programs, Manufacturing Management Programs, Project Management, Certified Energy Manager, Energy Systems Auditor (ISO 50001), Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt, Blackbelt, Master Blackbelt, Sustainability Management, Occupation Health & Safety, Global Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Total Quality Control , Product Development Management, Systems Analysis, Quality Management System, Manufacturing Materials & Processes, Professional Facilitator certification, New Product Introduction, Organizational Change Management, Professional Negotiation Management, Product’s Commercialization program and a few others.

Sam is currently a lecturer of Sustainability Management & Leadership Essential programs at McMaster university. He is also a Sr. advisor at Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) consulting services focusing on process optimization, sustainable development & business sustainability within the industries & government agencies in Canada while lecturing at local universities, colleges & conducting Corp. training programs.

Somayeh is a visionary executive advisor with more than a decade experience as entrepreneur, sustainability professional, process excellence and optimization specialist as well as being a proven professional architect.

She has master’s degree (M.Arch) in sustainable design with extensive experience and expertise in sustainable architecture. Driven by her strong passion, she pursued education at wider perspective of sustainability leadership and business management. She obtained her credential in Green Economy and Sustainability Management & Enterprise Process Excellence programs from Ryerson University as well as Business Sustainability Management program at University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. She is also a LSS certified Blackbelt (CBB) from American Society of Quality (ASQ).

Somayeh won the sustainability first place award in 2008 at the MIPIM International competition in Architecture Design and has been collaborating with Pictet and Cie Swiss Bank on the Prix Pictet project on sustainability.

Somayeh is currently a lead instructor and course development specialist for the Sustainability Management, Lean Six Sigma continuous improvement and Green Economy certificate programs at Ryerson University. She is pursuing her academic ambition to be an academic lecturer in sustainability within global universities and continue her consulting and entrepreneurship activities within the global markets.