Scott Jacobson is an equity investor and consultant to startup companies, venture capital and syndicated real estate ventures. After studying electrical engineering, Jacobson worked on wall street as an account executive for E.F Hutton and Paine Weber. In 1988 he moved into the art world, founding Leo Kaplan Modern Ltd., a New York gallery specializing in contemporary glass sculpture and art furniture. Leo Kaplan Modern Ltd. became the Scott Jacobson Gallery in 2009. In 1994 he was instrumental in the founding of Expressions of Culture, an art exposition companybased in Chicago. After serving on the board of directors and as CFO, in 2005 Jacobson negotiated the sale of EOC to London Stock Exchange listed Daily Mail and General Trust plc for over 250x invested equity.