Sam Polk

Co-founder and CEO of Everytable; New York, NY

Sam Polk is founder and CEO of Everytable, a social enterprise restaurant chain on a mission to transform the food system to make delicious and healthy food affordable and accessible to everyone, everywhere. He is also a board member for FEAST, and the author of For the Love of Money. Sam Polk is the founder and CEO of Everytable, a social enterprise. A former hedge fund trader, Sam left a successful career on Wall Street to follow his heart to fight food injustice and inequality in America. In 2013, he founded a nonprofit called FEAST (originally called Groceryships) to address food-related health problems in South Los Angeles by helping family food providers make healthy choices through nutrition education, cooking classes, free produce, and support groups. In 2015, Sam created Everytable, which offers made-from-scratch meals priced according to what is affordable in a specific neighborhood. To date, Everytable has sold more than 5 million fresh-prepared meals throughout communities and on college campuses across greater Los Angeles, through a combination of grab-and-go markets, a home delivery service and SmartFridge vending machines. With the backing of food-forward investors like Kimbal Musk, Maria Shriver, Gwyneth Paltrow, TOMS Social Enterprise Fund, Acumen, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Annenberg Foundation and The California Wellness Foundation, Everytable has the potential to work in every major metropolitan area across the county. (New York, NY)