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Tom Sampson

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📍 Greater Chicago Area, United States🔄 Updated November 2026💼 11 investments📅 22 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2025
Angel investor🌍 United States
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Board Member
Mar 2025
MSI Express is a strategic, innovative contract manufacturing and packaging company. Our growing breadth of capabilities and trusted team of problem solvers is a perfect match for the challenges of today’s CPG world. With an engineer as a founding partner, our company has a leg up on creating innovative engineering solutions to package your products more timely & efficiently which impacts your brands profitability. MSI Express is the fastest, most direct way to save time, save money, and protect your brand. • Comprehensive capabilities • A simplified supply chain • Agility and speed • Flexible, customized solutions • Responsiveness • Combined strengths from three top companies • Proven safety track record, customer confidence • Higher quality standards, a job done right the first time • Straight-forward answers and advice Bring us your most basic or complex initiative and we will deliver fast, cost-effective, labor-efficient manufacturing and packaging solutions. •We can get a short-term packaging solution for one product up and running quickly at a fair cost. •We’ll help you drive down unit cost by setting up a packaging line in your distribution center with your employees, run it efficiently for you, and save money. •We can help cut millions from the budget of your manufacturing operation by running it for you and increasing efficiency while reducing waste. •We can design, develop, and operate a dedicated plant. MSI Express is the kind of partner you’ll enjoying doing business with. We’re straight talkers and we take a personal interest in the success of your business. As your ally and advocate, we anticipate your needs and lead you to solutions you didn’t even know were out there. Your career will thrive at MSI Express. We empower our team members with more opportunities to grow professionally, become their best, and make a real impact in our business.
Board Member
Dec 2021
Depuis 1990, Fontaine Santé s’est engagée à offrir à sa clientèle des produits haut de gamme variés, goûteux, frais et nutritifs et à être la référence santé sur le marché du prêt-à-manger. Chez Fontaine Santé, on ne se contente pas de créer des aliments à la chaîne et de les distribuer en magasin. Nous cherchons à exciter les papilles gustatives en proposant des recettes traditionnelles qui évoquent un savoir-faire artisanal. Dans le cadre de sa mission, Fontaine Santé ne laisse rien au hasard. Toujours à la recherche d’innovation, nous veillons à améliorer la qualité et la variété de nos produits et de nous assurer de toujours concevoir des mets d’une fraîcheur irréprochable sans agents de conservation, sans additifs chimiques, 100 % naturels et sans organismes génétiquement modifiés (OGM). En ce sens, nous travaillons continuellement pour vous illustrer à travers nos produits que « bien manger » vous permet de « mieux vivre ». --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Founded in 1990, Fontaine Santé continues its commitment in offering people a variety of high-end products that are tasty, fresh and nutritious while being the health reference in the ready-to-eat market. At Fontaine Santé, we do not simply mass-produce foods then distribute them in stores. We seek to excite the taste buds by offering traditional recipes that reflect our authentic craftsmanship. As part of our mission, Fontaine Santé leaves nothing to chance. Always in search of innovation, we strive to improve the quality and variety of our products and pledge to craft dishes that are of an impeccable freshness, without any preservatives or chemicals, 100% natural and free of any Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). In this respect, we are continually working to show you through our products that “eating well” allows for “better living”.
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2025
Board Member
Mar 2025
MSI Express is a strategic, innovative contract manufacturing and packaging company. Our growing breadth of capabilities and trusted team of problem solvers is a perfect match for the challenges of today’s CPG world. With an engineer as a founding partner, our company has a leg up on creating innovative engineering solutions to package your products more timely & efficiently which impacts your brands profitability. MSI Express is the fastest, most direct way to save time, save money, and protect your brand. • Comprehensive capabilities • A simplified supply chain • Agility and speed • Flexible, customized solutions • Responsiveness • Combined strengths from three top companies • Proven safety track record, customer confidence • Higher quality standards, a job done right the first time • Straight-forward answers and advice Bring us your most basic or complex initiative and we will deliver fast, cost-effective, labor-efficient manufacturing and packaging solutions. •We can get a short-term packaging solution for one product up and running quickly at a fair cost. •We’ll help you drive down unit cost by setting up a packaging line in your distribution center with your employees, run it efficiently for you, and save money. •We can help cut millions from the budget of your manufacturing operation by running it for you and increasing efficiency while reducing waste. •We can design, develop, and operate a dedicated plant. MSI Express is the kind of partner you’ll enjoying doing business with. We’re straight talkers and we take a personal interest in the success of your business. As your ally and advocate, we anticipate your needs and lead you to solutions you didn’t even know were out there. Your career will thrive at MSI Express. We empower our team members with more opportunities to grow professionally, become their best, and make a real impact in our business.
2024
Board Member
May 2024
LINK Unlimited Scholars is a 50-year-old Chicago-based institution working to change the trajectory of high-potential African American youth, through unique programming and mentorship opportunities in the classroom and beyond. With educational support, mentors and financial subsidies, LINK provides the necessary backing to help close opportunity gaps and further ensure economic stability for our scholars. Since 1966, we have served over 2,500 scholars. LINK supports each scholar by providing college prep education, one-on-one mentoring, summer learning, personal leadership development, college access and success and career readiness. LINK scholars have attended many selective colleges and universities, and have moved on to become successful in their own right, as business professionals, educators, engineers, architects, attorneys, doctors and more. Many LINK alumni are now mentors of current LINK scholars.
2021
Board Member
Dec 2021
Depuis 1990, Fontaine Santé s’est engagée à offrir à sa clientèle des produits haut de gamme variés, goûteux, frais et nutritifs et à être la référence santé sur le marché du prêt-à-manger. Chez Fontaine Santé, on ne se contente pas de créer des aliments à la chaîne et de les distribuer en magasin. Nous cherchons à exciter les papilles gustatives en proposant des recettes traditionnelles qui évoquent un savoir-faire artisanal. Dans le cadre de sa mission, Fontaine Santé ne laisse rien au hasard. Toujours à la recherche d’innovation, nous veillons à améliorer la qualité et la variété de nos produits et de nous assurer de toujours concevoir des mets d’une fraîcheur irréprochable sans agents de conservation, sans additifs chimiques, 100 % naturels et sans organismes génétiquement modifiés (OGM). En ce sens, nous travaillons continuellement pour vous illustrer à travers nos produits que « bien manger » vous permet de « mieux vivre ». --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Founded in 1990, Fontaine Santé continues its commitment in offering people a variety of high-end products that are tasty, fresh and nutritious while being the health reference in the ready-to-eat market. At Fontaine Santé, we do not simply mass-produce foods then distribute them in stores. We seek to excite the taste buds by offering traditional recipes that reflect our authentic craftsmanship. As part of our mission, Fontaine Santé leaves nothing to chance. Always in search of innovation, we strive to improve the quality and variety of our products and pledge to craft dishes that are of an impeccable freshness, without any preservatives or chemicals, 100% natural and free of any Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). In this respect, we are continually working to show you through our products that “eating well” allows for “better living”.
Operating Partner
Nov 2021
Founded in 1999, Arbor Investments is a specialized private equity firm focused exclusively on acquiring premier companies in food, beverage, and related industries. To date, the firm has acquired or invested in over 80 companies in North America. Arbor is headquartered in Palm Beach, FL, with additional offices in Chicago and New York.
2020
Belvika, Ltd
Board Member
Jun 2020
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