Alan is responsible for Ashland Partners’ Cyber-Security Services for all clients in the United States. Prior to joining Ashland Partners, Alan spent 12 years in the financial sector as a Senior Vice President/Chief Information Officer. Alan also served as an Information Security Officer where his duties included developing controls, interfacing with regulators, and educating staff on Cyber-Security related issues.
Alan earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Education from Whitworth University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Southern Oregon University. Alan is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). Alan is also involved with several local and national technical councils and has contributed to white papers on Information Security and Business Intelligence.
Graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, former head of a large real estate law firm in Manhattan, and an art collector since 1970, Steve and his wife have built a collection that fills an apartment in New York City, a house in East Hampton, and a pied a Terre in Miami Beach.Collecting for Steve is an age-defying addiction that can be indulged without harm to you health if you watch what you spend.
The Jacobson collection includes artists from all over the world whose work provides a better understanding of the cultures we think about when hear the word ‘globalization’. For the Jacobsons, looking at art and collecting is a major enjoyment, not so much for the bragging rights of ownership but for pleasure they get from looking at and being surrounded by beautiful objects.
A graduate of Barnard College, Susan Jacobson has worked in the art world for over 25 years, starting her career as a research assistant. She has worked in major NYC based art galleries, including Mary Boone and Barbara Mathes, written art criticism, and was the Curator & Director of the Judaica Museum at the Hebrew Home in Riverdale for 13 years where she curated numerous exhibitions and oversaw a collection of 4,000 pieces of art. She has been married to Steven Jacobson for nearly ten years, and they have been collecting contemporary and cutting edge art together. Their collection includes many women and African American artists and includes work by Cindy Sherman, Kara Walker, Josephine Meckseper, El Anastui, and Theater Gates. Susan Jacobson is on the Board of Guild Hall in East Hampton, NY, is a member of the Director’s Circle of the Grey Gallery of NYU, and enjoys supporting many cultural institutions with her husband.
Jim is a former member of the firm’s executive committee and a partner in the corporate transaction & securities and international practice groups. He also chairs the firm’s India desk and cryptocurrency group, and is a principal member of the family office services group.
An extensive authority on securities and corporate transactions in the US and internationally, he counsels clients on contract drafting and negotiations, mergers an acquisitions, public offerings registered with the SEC, private placements of securities exempt from registration, venture capital financings, and hedge fund, investment adviser and broker-dealer formation and compliance, and cryptocurrency issues.
Chris Johnson
Chris Johnson is the principal of Scott’s Pond Capital, LLC, a family office and boutique advisory firm focused primarily on alternative investments, as well as the President of Stage Point Capital, a niche real estate lending business.
Prior to founding Scott’s Pond Capital, Chris worked at Merrill Lynch, Loeb Partners Corporation, and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Chris holds a Bachelor of Law from the University of Zurich in Switzerland, where he grew up, and an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business.
