Mr. Beard is a graduate of Yale University and earned a M.A. in history from Columbia University. Mr. Beard has had the privilege of initiating and then chairing programs for each of the last eight Presidents of the United States – Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama. In 1965, he began as Staff Associate to U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy working to revitalize Bedford-Stuyvesant, a low-income community in Brooklyn, New York. In 1969, Mr. Beard founded the National Development Council (NDC), a national non-profit organization dedicated to redeveloping urban and rural low-income communities. NDC initiated and ran four Presidential job creation programs for Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan. 

In 2016, Mr. Beard began GIFT (The Global Investment Foundation for Tomorrow) to take mindfulness and meditation global. GIFT has Impacted more than one billion people worldwide. Sam Beard has dedicated his working life to public service. He is married, the father of three children, grandfather of five, and resides in Wilmington, Delaware. 

Sam Beard