Bill Samuels, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Bill Samuels

American businessman and activist

Date of Birth: 10-Feb-1943

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Profession: politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

William Christie Samuels is a New York City-based progressive Democrat, businessman, founder and chairman of the board of the good government group EffectiveNY and the EffectiveNY Howard Samuels Policy Center.
He has recently been awarded the 2017 Center for Popular Democracy Social Justice Award.
He was also a host of Effective Radio on AM970, a monthly, two-hour program aimed at enacting major statewide policy changes from a constitutional right to clean air and water to term limits for Albany, to a new approach to drug addiction and marijuana legalization, while educating New Yorkers on a "People's Convention."Samuels has been active in progressive politics since organizing against the Vietnam War in the 1970s.
In his business career, he built ACTV, Inc.
which developed patents for interactive television.
The company was sold to an affiliate of Liberty Media.
He also recently sold his Silicon Valley technology company, Resonant Software, to IPipeline.Samuels is the son of Howard J.
Samuels (December 3, 1919 – October 26, 1984), an American statesman, industrialist, civil rights activist and philanthropist who served as U.S.
Under Secretary of Commerce and Director of the Small Business Administration under President Johnson, and special advisor to the campaign for president by John F.
Kennedy and the administration of President Carter.