Early Life
Sampson was born at Soldiers Memorial Hospital in Middleton, Nova Scotia Canada. The son of a British father and a Canadian mother, Sampson spent periods in Canada, England, Scotland and Singapore. At age 16 he joined the Seaforth Highlanders militia in Vancouver. He stayed on for 18 months. He held an MBA from Edinburgh University and a PhD in biochemistry.
He worked in biochemical research and pharmaceutical marketing prior to moving to Riyadh in 1998 to work as a marketing consultant with the Saudi Industrial Development Fund, a government development bank.
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