
Sam Polk is the co-founder and CEO of Everytable, a social enterprise restaurant chain making healthy food affordable for all, and founder of Feast, a Los Angeles non-profit that advances wellness in underserved communities through the power of healthy food and human connection. In a prior life, Sam was a senior trader at one of the largest hedge funds in the world. He is the author of the memoir For The Love of Money (Scribner, 2016) and the viral front-page New York Times OpEd of the same title. His writing has been published in The Los Angeles Times, The Orange County Register, The Huffington Post and CNBC.com. He serves on the Leadership Board of The Los Angeles Food Policy Council, the Advisory Board of Conscious Capitalism Los Angeles, and the Advisory Board of the Resnick Center for Food Law & Policy at UCLA. He is a graduate of Columbia University and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.