Sameer Shariff
(Founder & CEO)
Sameer Shariff is a serial entrepreneur with a passion
for turning ideas into real businesses.
As the founder and CEO of Impelsys Inc., Sameer drives Impelsys'
business vision, strategy, value and growth. Impelsys is his second
start up and he has grown the company into a leader in online content
delivery for the global publishing market. Impelsys' products and
services help over 300 publishers with their online content delivery
strategy. Customers include major publishers Reed Elsevier, McGraw Hill,
Wolters Kluwer, Thomson, Springer, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to smaller
publishers Marshall Cavendish, Benchmark Education and Prufrock Press.
The first company that Sameer founded was Medsite Inc. As Chief
Strategic Officer and Executive Vice President of Sales, he helped
Medsite become one of the largest Internet pharmaceutical marketing
companies in the United States. Mr. Shariff was instrumental in guiding
Medsite during its early period of financial and organizational growth.
Under his strategic direction, Medsite grew to include more than 200
employees and increased in sales from $0 to over $20 million. In 2006,
Medsite was sold to WebMD for over $40 Million.
Sameer is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned
his BS degree in Entrepreneurial Management from the Wharton School of
Business. He has served as a guest speaker at several industry events
including Delhi Book Fair - India, Bologna Children's Book Fair - Italy,
Abu Dhabi International Book Fair - UAE, O'Reilly TOC Conference - New
York, International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) - New York, Digital
Book World - New York, Klopotek - Berlin, Association of Educational
Publishers Summit - Washington, Digital Publishing Asia Pacific -
Beijing, and American Medical Publishers Association - Pennsylvania,
Professional Scholarly Publishing Conference - Washington; and has been
featured in Forbes, India Today, CMS Wire, Professional Publishing
Report, Gilbane, Seybold Report and Silicon India among other
publications.