diff --git a/etc/default_data.json b/etc/default_data.json
index 7fa974619..4ad821032 100644
--- a/etc/default_data.json
+++ b/etc/default_data.json
@@ -8929,6 +8929,22 @@
            "user_name": "Stefan Haub",
            "emails": ["s.haub@telekom.de"]
         },
+        {
+            "launchpad_id": "s8m",
+            "gerrit_id": "SamYaple",
+            "companies": [
+                {
+                    "company_name": "*independent",
+                    "end_date": "2014-Jul-27"
+                },
+                {
+                    "company_name": "Rackspace",
+                    "end_date": null
+                }
+            ],
+            "user_name": "Sam Yaple",
+            "emails": ["sam@yaple.net", "sam.yaple@rackspace.com"]
+        },
         {
             "launchpad_id": "sahid-ferdjaoui",
             "companies": [