Born and educated on the east coast, Scott Ehrens knew he’d live in California since his first visit at the age of eight. He still has the blurred Polaroids from his first stopover there en route to Japan where his family relocated for two years. Scott’s outgoing, gregarious spirit and his interest in design blossomed as a world traveler at an early age.

Upon his return, Scott’s studious nature developed at Phillips Exeter Academy and Princeton University. Scott joined Goldman Sachs’ Equity Research department upon graduation, and as a top-ranked analyst in the nascent Internet field published the first independent Wall Street research on a small start-up called Yahoo. After retiring from Wall Street in 2000, Scott resumed his academic pursuits, this time in psychoanalysis at a Freudian Institute, and worked with nonprofits in New York and Los Angeles.