Sam Mandel
TweetDeck: EVP of Business Operations
Sam Mandel is EVP of Business Operations for TweetDeck, the leading third party social media software client for managing Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, MySpace and other real time information streams.
Prior to joining TweetDeck, Sam was COO of Liberation Entertainment, a Los Angeles-based independent film and television start-up. Sam began his career as an entertainment and IP lawyer at Blanc Gilburne Williams & Johnston (now absorbed into Arnold & Porter), and held a variety of senior business development positions at AOL and Time Warner before entering the start-up world. He is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego, and Yale Law School, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.