Sam Goldman is the Founder and CEO of Skyward Wildfire, which uses proprietary AI and manned vehicles to both predict and prevent lightning from igniting megafires that threaten communities, account for 5-8% of global carbon emissions, and cost tens of billions to manage.

Sam is also Co-Founder & Director of d.light, a social enterprise dedicated to making clean energy universally available and affordable. d.light has transformed the lives of over 200 million people in 70 countries.

Prior to d.light, Sam founded and managed multiple ventures in Africa, including improved agriculture and construction businesses, a for-profit NGO cultivating the miracle tree Moringa oleifera, and the distribution of low-cost latrines, cook stoves and rain water catchment cisterns.