Great Hill Partners Appoints Sam Liu as Director of AI

Seasoned AI leader joins Growth Team to advance AI capabilities across GHP’s investment process and portfolio

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Great Hill Partners, a private equity firm that invests in high-growth, disruptive companies, today announced that Sam Liu has joined the firm’s Growth Team as Director of AI, reflecting Great Hill’s continued focus on applying AI across the full scope of its investment and value creation activities. In this role, Liu will partner with Great Hill’s investment professionals to further develop the firm’s AI capabilities, combining technology and repeatable processes to strengthen how Great Hill identifies patterns, develops proprietary insights, and engages with companies across the investment lifecycle. He will also work with the Growth Team to help portfolio companies apply AI to product innovation, operations, and decision-making in ways that support scalable growth.

Liu brings more than a decade of experience designing and deploying AI solutions for leading global enterprises. Most recently, he served as an Associate Partner in Bain & Company’s AI practice, where he advised Fortune 500 companies and private equity firms on AI strategy, agentic AI, machine learning, and enterprise AI transformation. Prior to Bain, Liu spent nearly eight years at Boston Consulting Group, leading large-scale AI initiatives for clients across a range of industries. Earlier in his career, Liu held data science roles at Dell EMC and Intel, where he built machine learning models applied to supply chain forecasting and predictive maintenance.

“The pace of AI innovation is unlike anything we’ve seen before, and it is creating new opportunities to make investment teams more effective,” said Mike Thompson, Managing Director and Head of the Growth Team. “We are focused on thoughtfully incorporating the right AI tools into how we source, evaluate, and support companies. We believe Sam’s experience implementing and scaling AI will help accelerate that work across both our investment process and our portfolio company value creation efforts.”

“I’m excited to join Great Hill at a time when advances in AI are creating meaningful opportunities for investors and their portfolio companies,” said Liu. “What drew me to Great Hill was the firm’s conviction that AI can be applied in practical, measurable ways to strengthen how teams operate and create value. I look forward to partnering with the team to build applications that seek to enhance decision-making, increase efficiency, and support lasting value creation across the portfolio.”

Liu holds a Master of Information and Data Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

About Great Hill Partners

Founded in 1998, Great Hill Partners is a private equity firm targeting investments of $100 million to $750 million in high-growth companies across the financial services, healthcare, technology, business services, and consumer sectors. With offices in Boston and London, Great Hill has raised funds with over $19 billion in commitments and invested in more than 100 companies since 1998, establishing an extensive track record of building long-term partnerships with entrepreneurs and providing flexible resources to help middle-market companies scale. Great Hill has been recognized for its industry leadership, ranking in the top 15 of HEC Paris-Dow Jones’ Mid-Market and Large Buyout Performance Ranking lists for five consecutive years (2021–2025). For more information, including a list of all Great Hill investments, please visit www.greathillpartners.com.

Disclaimer: Great Hill Partners did not provide any compensation to HEC Paris-Dow Jones to be considered for any of these rankings.

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