Sam Abidi serves as Monarch’s Chief Commercial Officer and is responsible for partnerships and ecosystem formation. Prior to Monarch, Abidi served as CCO at Embark Trucks, an autonomous truck developer, where he led go-to-market strategy and structured a series of commercial partnerships across the freight ecosystem. Before Embark, he advised F500s and government agencies on deep-tech commercialization as a management consultant at Deloitte, spent time in the EV/AV division of General Motors and scaled an early-stage computer vision company serving the defense sector.
Abidi earned a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.