Samuel Alemayehu

Chairman and Co - Founder, Cambridge Industries Group

Samuel Z. Alemayehu engineers the physical and digital systems that will underpin the next era of the global economy. As Chairman of Cambridge Industries Group, he leads a diversified industrial organization focused on the construction and operation of regenerative infrastructure. Through its ventures arm, Cambridge Ventures, where he serves as Chief Craftsman, he moves beyond theoretical models to ground abstract concepts in industrial reality.

His work focuses on the tangible deployment of proprietary technology: erecting utility-scale waste-to-value facilities that mine cities for sovereign materials and energy, building the bioreactor systems necessary to scale cellular agriculture, and redesigning heavy manufacturing lines to replace combustion with precise electro-chemistry.

This focus on structural integrity extends to the digital realm, where he directs a portfolio of leading AI companies and advanced compute facilities. Rather than optimizing for short-term metrics, he engineers AI architectures designed for long-term stability, ensuring the systems deployed today are ones humanity will not regret a decade from now. A Stanford-educated engineer and former Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Alemayehu builds enterprises defined by their capacity to solve fundamental scarcity at a global scale.

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