William "Sam" Sneed Biography
Education & Career Consulting Practice
Sam focuses his education consulting on helping students accused of academic integrity, sexual misconduct, criminal, hazing and other issues apply to college, transfer between colleges, and apply to graduate or professional schools. He also provides online reputation management guidance in complex situations.
Sam focuses his career consulting for accused students on helping them navigate the challenging AI driven job search process. Sam is an expert on career management in the AI driven 2020's. Visit Sam's career consulting site: https://AIjobsearchguru.com .
He has earned a national reputation helping accused students re-claim their education, career and life trajectories since January 2014. Sam has helped well over 300 students just in the sexual misconduct area alone.
Background
Sam earned his B.A. at Yale where he was an English major and his J.D. from New York University School of Law. Although he is a licensed attorney, he does not provide legal services, only education and career consulting services.
Sam has been on Yale's select list of external career coaches, has regularly spoken on career issues for the Yale Alumni Association (YAA), developed a program on Career Management in the Time of COVID-19 for Yale students and alumni in the spring of 2020 and was the creator and anchor/moderator of season 1 of Career Pivots on the YAA Careers Life and Yale network - a monthly, live Zoom show on career management in the AI driven 2020's - from September 2020 to May of 2021. Watch a show Sam did with his classmate and friend, Bing Gordon of Kleiner Perkins and formerly on the Board at Amazon among other companies, including how he came up with the name "Amazon Prime" ( visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRerqQGpmr4 ).
In each of Sam's roles he has been a sought-after program leader and speaker including at large events such as at Temple University's B. Batsheva Friedman Lecture Series in Philadelphia on AI and the Impact on Our Lives, at Internet World at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City on Government Regulation of the Internet, and at the Annual American Bar Association Meeting in Chicago on Cost Containment in Complex Litigation. He has delivered many other talks, for example, an assembly to some 800 students, faculty and staff at Phillips Exeter Academy's Exeter Summer on AI and the Impact on Our Lives and for YAA on various career topics.
Prior to his education and career consulting he was an Internet pioneer and visionary. In 1994, he co-founded his first venture-funded Internet company. There he created award-winning web brands and led them into the market and secured innovative, content provider agreements with industry leaders such as Microsoft and AOL.
Later, he co-founded a second venture-funded Internet company. There he oversaw the development and launch of one of the first blog technologies, political social networking sites and online giving sites. He secured innovative affinity agreements with industry leaders such as Amazon.
Sam produced some of the early political shows on the Internet including the first Internet show from the nation’s capitol on AOL, and one of President Clinton's first online appearances on MSN.
In his various careers he was frequently called upon as a program leader and spoke to small and large audiences, for example, at Internet World at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City and at the American Bar Association's annual meeting in Chicago.
Prior to co-founding the venture-funded Internet companies, Sam was a partner at a multinational law firm where he concentrated his practice in complex litigation involving the construction industry. While there he co-authored and edited respected texts and many articles. He was a sought after speaker and program leader.
Education & Law Practice
After graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy, Yale, NYU School of Law, and a judicial clerkship Sam quickly became a partner at a major, multinational, law firm where he concentrated his practice on complex litigation around the country, co-authored three legal books and many articles and was a sought-after program leader and speaker. Before leaving the active practice of law he had obtained the largest judgment on behalf of a client for the firm, over 40 million in today’s dollars in federal court in a commercial matter and brought to the firm a major engagement that was singled out as one of the firm's 10 most important engagements at the firm's 100th anniversary. He left the firm after some 17 years to co-found the first of two venture funded Internet companies, the second of which he co-founded with Pete du Pont, forever governor of Delaware. After the second was sold he consulted for many years on all things “Internet”.
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