Sam Davis is a film producer born in New York City. He graduated from the University of Southern California and studied German at UCLA. After working at 20th Century Fox, he founded his own company Insight Out Films. He traveled to to Frankfurt, Germany in 1992 where he wrote and directed the documentary Warum wir hier sind. From 1993 to 1998, he was head of the TV Movie Department at RTL Television in Cologne. In 1998, he became a partner and Co-CEO of Cologne-based production company Zeitsprung. From 2004 until 2009, he took charge of the German Fiction department of Endemol Germany. In January 2010, he co-founded and became CEO of the Cologne-based film production company Rowboat Film- und Fernsehproduktion.