I'm Jacob Gordon. I'm an entrepreneur, marketer, writer, advisor, board member, nonprofit development expert, and lifelong learner.

I started my career as an environmental journalist before going into technology, serving as co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Artiphon, a groundbreaking music technology company. I left the business world to support my Brooklyn community, working as the Development and Communications Director at The B.R.O. Experience Foundation, a new non-profit specializing in innovative mental wellness services for economically marginalized young men of color.

I’ve also spent quite a bit of time working in green real estate development with my family’s company that owns and operates The Distillery in Boston, one of the city’s main artist live/work locations and one of the first multi-family Passive House developments in the country.

I occasionally do journalistic and academic writing, most recently publishing a chapter in a book from the SCORAI group on Routledge Press on the links between mindfulness and environmentally sustainable behaviors.

I have a BA in sociology from Bard College, recently completed a year of graduate studies in the Bard MBA in Sustainability program in New York City, and in 2025/2026 will be studying for a Master’s of Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School.

I was in the inaugural cohort of the Inner Development Goals Ambassador Program and attend the Summer Research Institute hosted by the Mind & Life Institute (co-founded by The 14th Dalai Lama).

In a previous incarnation I played country music in Nashville. I love photography (mostly analog), Buddhist practice (mostly Zen), and books on all manner of things.

Here’s my LinkedIn, my resume, and you can reach me here.

I’m currently based in Boston and am back in NYC often.