Jacob Walthour, Jr.
Jacob Walthour, Jr., is chief executive officer of Blueprint Capital Advisors and a member of the Inclusive Capitalism Executive Council at the Milken Institute. Blueprint Capital Advisors is a $1.6 billion investment advisory firm serving institutions and individuals across private debt, private equity, real estate, and venture capital investments.
With more than 30 years of experience across capital markets, investment banking, traditional, and alternative asset management, Walthour oversees all aspects of the firm’s investment activities and chairs its investment committee.
Prior to founding Blueprint, he served as vice chairman of product and business development in the investment management division of Cowen & Company, where he led the firm’s seeding and
acceleration efforts for emerging alternative investment managers. Earlier in his career, he held senior leadership roles at Cliffwater LLC, Citadel Investment Group, Aksia LLC, Moore Capital Investment, and Morgan Stanley, and began his career in the Investment Banking Division of Lehman Brothers.
In addition to his investment leadership, Walthour has more than two decades of board experience across corporate and nonprofit organizations. He currently serves as chairman of Parkview Capital Credit, Inc., and chairman of Transportation Demand Management. He previously served as chairman of EBONY Media Holdings, guiding the iconic multimedia company through a high-profile restructuring and sale in 2021.
In 2020, Walthour took an active stand to dismantle legacy systems impacting inclusion in capital markets and investing ecosystems. He founded Power100, which has become the most influential ecosystem of professionals and organizations shaping the investment management community.
He is active in philanthropy and institutional investing, currently serving on the investment
committee of the $9 billion Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropy and previously on the investment
subcommittee of the Girl Scouts of the USA. He has also served on the boards of the Robert & Ethel
Kennedy Human Rights Center, New York Cares, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Recognized by Black Enterprise Magazine as one of the Most Influential Blacks on Wall Street, Walthour has been featured in CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg, Reuters, Forbes, Vanity Fair, and The Wall Street Journal. He received his BA, cum laude, from the Nelson Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the State University of New York at Albany.