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Scott Mead is an American fine art photographer, philanthropist, and investor currently based in
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. After an early career in photography, Mead relocated to London in 1988, where as a partner at
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, he became known for overseeing and negotiating large
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and technology mergers. In 2000 he was chief advisor on
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's $200 billion buyout of
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, considered the largest corporate takeover in history. After joining
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in 2006, Mead joined the investment group of the
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before co-founding Richmond Park Partners (RPP) in 2007. A photographer, his prints have been included in the
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every year since 2011.
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'' profiled his work in 2012, and Mead published his aerial photography and philosophy book ''Above the Clouds'' in October 2017. Founder and chairman of the philanthropic Mead Family Foundation, Mead is involved with organizations such as the Tate Foundation, the
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, the University of the Arts,
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, and the
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(WTA). He has also supported programs at educational institutions such as
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,
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, and
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.


Early life and education

Scott Mead was born in
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. His father, James M. Mead, was a businessperson. With extended family based out of
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during his youth, Mead's grandfather John J. Mead Jr. had been a press journalist and photographer for the ''
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'', founded and owned by the Mead family. After accompanying his grandfather on assignments as a small child, Mead picked up
photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed ...
after he was given one of his grandfather's cameras at age thirteen. Mead taught himself how to develop photographs in his parents' basement. He attended high school at
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in
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, graduating in 1973. In 1974 he began attending
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. At Harvard he majored in
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and
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, also focusing on the visual arts under professors such as
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. Mead graduated
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with a
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(BA) degree in 1977. After receiving the Harvard Scholar award that year to attend
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,The Mead Fellowship in Economics, Emmanuel College - Albert Hammond - Feb 2, 2011 -ezine in 1979 he graduated Cambridge's Emmanuel College with a
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. Mead subsequently received a J.D. from the
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law school in 1982.


Business career


1980s-2003: Goldman Sachs

Early in his career Mead worked at
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Scott Mead's Work Accepted to the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition - Amanda Lisin - August 21, 2011 and moved to
Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs () is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is headquartered at 200 West Street in Lower Manhattan, with regional headquarters in London, Warsaw, Bangalore, H ...
in New York in 1986 as vice president in their corporate finance department, before being transferred to
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in 1988, where he became a Goldman Sachs managing director and later partner. At Goldman Sachs he soon took on the roles of
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of the global telecoms, media, entertainment and technology group and the head of European Privatizations, advising several major deals. In 1999 he was Goldman Sachs' chief negotiator and advisor for
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's takeover of the German telecom group
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. The value of the acquisition neared $200 billion, considered the largest in history. He also advised Vodafone on its $66.5 billion takeover of
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Communications. During his time with Goldman Sachs, he oversaw mergers and transactions totaling approximately $500 billion. After retiring as a partner and managing director from Goldman Sachs in 2003, he ran and managed his own private equity activities, advised a group of " blue-chip" companies, and focused on philanthropy.


2006-present: Apax and RPP

Mead joined a group of investors around 2006 who had purchased the
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. After management made substantial investment in new talent and coaching, in 2008 the team won the
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play-offs. From October 2006 until September 2008 Mead was a senior advisor at
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, serving as chairman of the company's global technology and telecommunications advisory board. In 2007 Mead co-founded Richmond Park Partners (RPP) in London, taking on the role of president. The company initially focused on financial services and telecom clients in Europe and the
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. Since 2012 he has devoted much of his time to photography.


Arts career

Mead minored in visual studies at Harvard, studying under photographers such as
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and
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in the mid 1970s. Among other projects, around this time he "used a complex photography technique to shoot a series of black and white photographs capturing rural
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" circular format. In 2009, Mead rediscovered old prints and negatives from his student years in his attic, and began re-immersing himself in photography. In 2010, 25 of Mead's images from 1974 to 1977, many of them never printed before, were displayed at a London solo exhibition titled ''Looking Back'' at Mayfair gallery Hamilton's, with all funds donated to
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in London. Prints from the exhibit and other works were afterward selected for inclusion in the 2011
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, and Mead also had prints selected for the Royal Academy summer exhibition in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017. In 2012 the
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...
''
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'' program profiled his work, and Mead published the book ''Looking Back'' afterwards, featuring prints from his twenties. In October 2017 the aerial photography and philosophy book ''Above the Clouds'' was published by Prestel, with prints from the book exhibited in January 2018 at Hamiltons.


Boards and philanthropy

Mead created The Mead Family Foundation in 1996, also assuming the role of chairman. After
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in London cured his infant child of
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, Mead became a long-term supporter and board member of the institution. He has also endowed the
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's GOSH Arts program, where patients are immersed in the arts during often difficult treatments, potentially resulting in a more positive outcome. Mead has also been on the board of visitors of
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in
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. Mead has spearheaded a number of educational initiatives, and he backed and co-founded London’s Notting Hill Preparatory school in 2003. He 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
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in 2009. He remains involved in all of his alma maters, including
Phillips Academy ("Not for Self") la, Finis Origine Pendet ("The End Depends Upon the Beginning") Youth From Every Quarter Knowledge and Goodness , address = 180 Main Street , city = Andover , state = Ma ...
, Emmanuel College,
Cambridge University , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...
, and
Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
. Mead founded the Mead International Fellows Program, and in 2008 he established the "Scott Mead '77 Family Head Coach" endowment to support the Harvard Men's Tennis team. A benefactor fellow at Emmanuel College, he was the creator and benefactor of the
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's Mead Fellowships, which provides grants to students in the arts. He is also the creator of the Mead Fellowship at
University of Pennsylvania Law School The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (also known as Penn Law or Penn Carey Law) is the law school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is among the most selective and olde ...
. He is also involved in various athletic and arts organizations. He joined the executive committee for the Tate Foundation, and is on the Tate's acquisition committee. Also on the global advisory council of the
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(WTA), he has also been a member of the trustees of
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. Since 2011 he has been a trustee of the
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in New York, and he joined the rector's council of the
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in 2012, and its court of governors in 2017. Furthermore, he was chairman of the board of trustees of
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in London from 2013 until 2016.


Selected exhibitions

*2010: ''Looking Back'' - Solo exhibition / Hamilton’s Gallery, London - 25 of Mead's prints from 1974 to 1977 were exhibited. *2010-2011: ''The PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs'' - Group show - Mead's print “Three Barns” and “Untitled” exhibited and sold as part of the auction to benefit PhotoVoice. *2011-2012: ''The Art Show'' - Group show /
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, New York - His print “Evening Light” was exhibited, followed by "Untitled (Umbrellas on Beach)," with the show organized by the Art Dealers Association of America to benefit
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. *2011-2017: ''Summer Exhibition'' - Group show /
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, London - various photograph prints selected, most recently "Journey into Blue" and "Autumn.” *2018: ''Scott Mead: Above the Clouds'' - Solo exhibition / Hamilton’s Gallery, London - several prints


Books

* 2010: ''Looking Back'' by Scott Mead (self-published 1st edition) *2017: ''Above the Clouds'' by Scott Mead (Prestel)


See also

*
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