23 Facts About Scott Mead

Scott Mead is an American fine art photographer, philanthropist, and investor currently based in London.

Scott Mead taught himself how to develop photographs in his parents' basement.

Scott Mead attended high school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, graduating in 1973.

Scott Mead subsequently received a JD from the University of Pennsylvania law school in 1982.

Early in his career Scott Mead worked at First Boston Corporation and moved to Goldman Sachs in New York in 1986 as vice president in their corporate finance department, before being transferred to London in 1988, where he became a Goldman Sachs managing director and later partner.

Scott Mead advised Vodafone on its $66.5 billion takeover of Airtouch Communications.

Scott Mead joined a group of investors around 2006 who had purchased the Boston Celtics.

From October 2006 until September 2008 Scott Mead was a senior advisor at Apax Partners, serving as chairman of the company's global technology and telecommunications advisory board.

In 2007 Scott Mead co-founded Richmond Park Partners in London, taking on the role of president.

Scott Mead initially focused on financial services and telecom clients in Europe and the Middle East.

Scott Mead minored in visual studies at Harvard, studying under photographers such as William Eggleston and Emmet Gowin in the mid-1970s.

In 2009, Scott Mead rediscovered old prints and negatives from his student years in his attic, and began re-immersing himself in photography.

Prints from the exhibit and other works were afterward selected for inclusion in the 2011 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, and Scott Mead had prints selected for the Royal Academy summer exhibition in 2012,2013,2014,2015,2016, and 2017.

In 2012 the BBC Culture Show program profiled his work, and Scott Mead published the book Looking Back afterwards, featuring prints from his twenties.

Scott Mead created The Scott Mead Family Foundation in 1996, assuming the role of chairman.

Scott Mead has endowed the Great Ormond Street Hospital's GOSH Arts program, where patients are immersed in the arts during often difficult treatments, potentially resulting in a more positive outcome.

Scott Mead has been on the board of visitors of MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.

Scott Mead has spearheaded a number of educational initiatives, and he backed and co-founded London's Notting Hill Preparatory school in 2003.

Scott Mead has been a board member of Usher's New Look Foundation, which provides training and mentorship to disadvantaged children, and he joined the UK advisory board of Room to Read in 2009.

Scott Mead remains involved in all of his alma maters, including Phillips Academy, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, and Harvard University.

Scott Mead is the creator of the Mead Fellowship at University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Scott Mead is involved in various athletic and arts organizations.

Scott Mead joined the executive committee for the Tate Foundation, and is on the Tate's acquisition committee.