Progress, Potential, and Possibilities Podcast / Show Jacob Walthour Jr. - CEO, Blueprint Capital Advisors - Economic, Racial And Social Equity Advocacy
Jacob Walthour, Jr. is the CEO and Co-Founder of the investment firm Blueprint Capital Advisors, which offers investment advisory and portfolio management services, managing $1.2 billion of clients wealth. Mr. Walthour has over 30 years of experience in capital markets, traditional and alternative asset management. Prior to founding Blueprint, Mr. Walthour served as Vice Chairman of Product and Business Development at the investment management division of Cowen & Company, also serving on the firm’s Management Committee. Previously, Mr. Walthour served as Managing Director of Cliffwater LLC, a leading provider of alternatives consulting, serving on the firm’s Investment Committee and responsible for client consulting. Prior to joining Cliffwater, Mr. Walthour was a Partner and Managing Director at Citadel Investment Group where he managed the firm’s North American distribution effort. Mr. Walthour received his BA cum laude from the Nelson Rockefeller School at the State University of New York at Albany. Mr. Walthour serves on several corporate boards including Parkview Capital Credit, Inc., Transportation Demand Management LLC. and chaired Ebony Media Holdings through its recent sale. He has also served, or is currently serving, on the boards of several non-profit and philanthropic organizations including the Investment Committee for $7 billion Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropy, the Investment Subcommittee of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America, as a Director of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights, Trustee for the New York Foundation for the Arts, Director of New York Cares and Trustee of the ECLC School for children and adults with learning disabilities. Mr. Walthour has been a frequent speaker at pension, hedge fund, and alternative investment conferences, and has been featured on CNBC and contributed to a variety of articles in Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, Institutional Investor Alpha, and Bloomberg.