H.S. Hamadeh is a media entrepreneur based in New York with business interests in digital media, publishing, and film.

Hamadeh co-founded VAULT.com in 1997 and served as the company’s President through its successful sale in 2007 to a major private equity firm. He reportedly remains a significant minority shareholder of VAULT.

Hamadeh is a graduate of UCLA, the University of Pennsylvania Law School

University of Pennsylvania Law School

The University of Pennsylvania Law School, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the law school of the University of Pennsylvania. A member of the Ivy League, it is among the oldest and most selective law schools in the nation. It is currently ranked 7th overall by U.S. News & World Report,...

 with a JD, and holds a MBA from the Wharton School of Business. He speaks and writes frequently about entrepreneuership, including being the Keynote Speaker at Wharton's Annual Entrepreneurship Conference.

Honors and awards have included Crain’s Top Entrepreneur's Award, the Harvard Business School Club’s Entrepreneur of the Year Silicon Alley Reporter’s “100 Most Important Internet Executives” Deloitte & Touche’s 50 Fastest Growing Companies, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School's Young Alumnus of the Year award. He has also been an Executive Producer of several notable films, including Home Movie

Home Movie (2008 film)

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starring Adrian Pasdar

Adrian Pasdar

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, and Made For Each Other

Made for Each Other

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starring Chris Masterson, Danny Masterson

Danny Masterson

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, and Bijou Phillips

Bijou Phillips

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Hamadeh's prominent charitable activities include supporting the charity Right to Play, which sets up sports and athletic programs for children in the world's war-torn areas, recently hosting a major benefit in New York City attended by prominent Olympic medalists and New York Governor David Paterson, raising over $50,000 from just this event.

External links

• http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/alum_mag/issues/spring2002/feature_1f.html
• http://wep.wharton.upenn.edu/newsletter/winter03/hamadeh.html
• http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/brotherly_love_for_bijou_phillips_nGrsYP0HIB6eEmGXAsZqHM
• http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/take_that_Nbtn5a8BBlzCOKRH3GegHL