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Sam Fiorello currently serves as Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President for Administration and Finance at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center as well as President of the newly created Bio-Research and Development Growth Park (BRDG Park). The Danforth Center is the world’s largest independent research institute focused on plant science. The BRDG Park helps life sciences companies’ bridge research, resources and relationships to achieve commercial success. Sam’s work with the Danforth Center started eleven years ago when he worked as Chief of Staff in Monsanto Company’s Office of the President. While at Monsanto, Sam helped put together the Danforth Center’s business plan and initial pool of funding. Prior to his work at Monsanto, Sam was a senior trade and investment policy analyst with Walker/Free Associates in Washington, DC. While at Walker/Free, he was actively engaged in the NAFTA legislative campaign, as a liaison between the business community, the US Congress, and the government of Mexico. Sam also worked at Cargill Investor Services, developing and implementing the marketing program for the Stock Index Division, and for Confindustria, an Italian industrial policy research center. Sam received a graduate degree in Public Administration from the University of Texas, and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Wisconsin. His publications include; “A First Report Card for NAFTA”, The Journal of Commerce, June 6, 1994. “Piccole Imprese: Prospetti per l’EC 1992”, Confindustria Working Paper. 03/92. “Stock Index Futures and Options: An Economic Justification”, CIS Insight Magazine, 11/87. “Using Stock Index Contracts as a Means to Build a Portfolio Insurance Program”, CIS Insight Magazine, 02/87. Sam and wife Rebecca live in St. Louis, Missouri and are the parents of two sons, Graham and Max, and daughter Audrey.
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