Jason Scott, Partner
Jason Scott is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of EKO Asset Management Partners. Jason has more than a decade of experience developing and managing firms seeking to sustainably manage and invest capital. He was most recently an investment analyst at Generation Investment Management, co-founded by David Blood and former Vice President Al Gore, Jr. Jason was a founding Director of Generation and as its first employee helped build the firm, and its first and second products. Generation's global equity and climate solutions funds seek to maximize financial returns by integrating sustainability analysis into traditional investment management processes. From 1999 to 2004, Jason worked as an executive and advisor with Acumen Fund, a global social investing project incubated by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Blue Ridge Foundation, an affiliate of hedge fund Blue Ridge Capital, and the Flatiron Future Fund and the Flatiron Foundation in New York City. From 1996 to 1999, Jason was the President and COO of Togglethis, software company based in New York City. From 1991 to 1996, Jason helped found and build Public Allies, a community leadership program for young adults. Prior to Public Allies, Jason worked in organizing positions for several political campaigns.
In 1998, the Rockefeller Foundation selected Jason as a fellow in its Next Generation Leadership Program. Jason served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Duke's Sanford Institute of Public Policy in 2000. He serves on the board of youth development programs Groundwork, Inc., in Brooklyn, N.Y. and Public Allies. Jason received a BA cum laude from Duke University with honors in History in 1990. He received an MBA with Distinction though a joint Global Executive Program of Columbia and London Business Schools in 2004.
