Sam McElhinney

Sam McElhinney

Sam McElhinney is founder and CEO of Weven, a two-sided venue management system that generates dynamic planning experiences for clients. Weven saves venue operators time, lowers costs and creates happier clients. The venue management system leverages venue specific data, spatial parameters, owner preferences and more to generate a personalized planning account for each client, specific to their venue, event size, date, budget and more. The business has raised $2.5M of venture funding from premier investors and is expanding at a rapid pace.
Sam brings years of marketing, sales and product expertise to Weven from his time at Google, and AB InBev as well as advising various consumer startups. Sam received his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and BA from Dartmouth College. In his free time, Sam can be found hiking, fishing or skiing throughout greater New England with his family.