Sam Alpert

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Sam Alpert’s family has been in Arizona since 1898 and has a long history of working in education and for the community. Before coming to Junior Achievement, Sam was an entrepreneur. He ran his own advertising and public relations agency for seven years and represented an impressive portfolio of clients including My Sister’s Closet, Dunkin’ Donuts, NYPD Pizza, Mountainside Fitness, Cox Communications, Cancer Treatment Centers of America and KJZZ-NPR. In 2010, his agency won the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce IMPACT Award for Best Company Culture, and it was also a finalist for ASU’s Spirit of Enterprise Awards.

In 2012, Sam sold his ownership in the agency and was recruited to Junior Achievement to re-build its development team and increase awareness of JA in the community. Since then, Sam’s team has raised more than $2 million in new gifts. His team oversees annual funding of approximately $1.5 million from corporate, individual, government and foundation donors.

In 2016, Sam was honored as one of the Phoenix Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” up-and-coming business leaders. He is on the Corporate Advisory Board for the Association of Latino Professionals For America, was previously the chairperson of Friendly House and served on the boards of Scottsdale Prevention Institute and Phoenix Chamber’s Small Business Leadership Council. Sam has a degree in journalism from Arizona State University and is currently in the Executive MBA program at ASU.