Scott Mead | ||
| Investment Banker, Businessman, Philanthropist, Photographer London, UK | ||
| Banking and Investments | ||
Location: London, United Kingdom | ||
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About Scott Mead
Scott Mead is a long-time photographer, and although he has been in the investment banking industry for the past two decades, he once thought his destiny was to become a professional photographer. However, fate had different plans for him, as he developed a successful career in the investment banking sector, while still pursuing interests he has had for many years.
In 1977, Scott Mead graduated with a degree in Arts and Literature from Harvard, and then continued, as a Harvard Scholar, to study at Cambridge University. Later he moved on to University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he got his law degree, focusing on international law.
After graduation, Scott Mead joined the First Boston Corporation, and worked in the mergers and acquisition and corporate finance divisions. Among his responsibilities were deals and transactions involving Asia, primarily China and Japan. During this time, Scott Mead renewed his study of Mandarin Chinese to facilitate his business activities.
In 1986, Scott Mead joined Goldman Sachs & Company, where he was in charge of leading and managing multi-billion dollars deals and transactions in the US, Europe and Asia. Here he worked for nearly twenty years and later joined Apax Partners.
At Apax Partners, Scott Mead was a Senior Advisor, as well as Chairman of the Technology and Telecommunications Advisory Board. He was there for two years, between 2006 and 2008, and left to found Richmond Park Partners.
In 2008, Scott Mead along with a few colleagues, experts in their fields of activity, founded Richmond Park Partners (RPP), an independent merchant bank, which advises clients from an innovative, objective point of view. Based in London, RPP provides world wide corporate finance and capital markets advisory services as well as risk and asset management. RPP carefully personalizes its services for each client, focusing on the client’s best interests.
In September 2010, Scott Mead opened a fine art photography exhibition. All profits from the show were donated to a new Gene and Cell Therapy Laboratory at the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). Mead’s involvement with the hospital started many years ago when his son, now 18, battled leukemia as a baby and was cured.
Philanthropic acts are always encouraged and in this case especially exciting to know Mead has raised funds to a cause close to his heart.
Scott Mead has been supporting GOSH and has been volunteering there, as an associate non-executive director at the hospital's trust board, and as vice-chairman of the GOSH redevelopment board, since 2002.
Although his business and other activities take him around the world, when he is in London, he regularly participates in various sports and runs marathons for charity. He is also an avid art enthusiast and collector, and – of course – a philanthropist and an accomplished photographer.
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