About Scott Sacco

Maquan’s founder, Scott Sacco, combines expertise as a marketing strategist and writer with extensive experience in corporate strategic planning and operational business management.

Prior to launching Maquan he was a founding principal of business operations with Forest Systems, LLC, an institutional forest investment firm. Scott and his partners self-funded the company and over a ten-year period they helped acquire 1.7 million acres of timberland in 12 states on behalf of institutional investors and private equity investment managers. As a member of the firm’s four-person senior management team, Scott oversaw Forest Systems’ business platform – directing administration, SEC compliance, information systems, human resources, strategic planning, marketing and public affairs. He also managed its conservation outreach and monetization efforts, which permanently protected more than 54,000 acres of private forestland and generated more than $24 million in revenue for clients.

Prior to helping found Forest Systems, Scott was responsible for marketing, communications and strategic planning at the Hancock Timber Resource Group, the world’s largest timberland investment firm. In that capacity, he led an 11-person team that oversaw external relations and supported the firm’s capital raising and environmental stewardship efforts. This included working with more than 100 foresters who were responsible for managing nearly 3.0 million acres in the U.S. Northeast, Southeast and Pacific Northwest. Prior to that assignment, he was director of marketing strategy and communications in John Hancock’s Investment Management Division. That role entailed leading a six-person team that oversaw the marketing and branding efforts of John Hancock’s traditional and alternative investment units, which provided equity and fixed income, private equity, venture capital, energy project finance, timberland, farmland and commercial real estate services to more than 100 large pension funds, foundations and endowments. These groups managed more than $12 billion in assets. Scott’s team also supported John Hancock’s retirement plan services group, which provided defined benefit and defined contribution products.

Earlier in his career, Scott worked in retail marketing with John Hancock and as a consultant with Schofield & Company, a boutique public relations firm that served institutional investment managers. At Schofield, he worked with journalists from financial news outlets around the world on behalf of the executive management teams of State Street Global Advisors, State Street Corporation, Alliance Capital Management, MacKay-Shields, Greystone Properties, Rhumbline Advisors and John Hancock Financial Services.

Scott began his business career in the corporate communications unit of Bank of Boston after covering politics for a large daily newspaper in Massachusetts and serving as an intern and campaign staffer with U.S. Senator Paul E. Tsongas. He holds a BA in English with concentrations in journalism and political science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is soon to complete an MA in world history and international relations extension studies at Harvard University.