Scott Plein

Scott Plein is the founding principal of Equinox Investments, LLC, a real estate investment, development, and management firm specializing in community planning and entitlements in Northern Virginia. A lifelong resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Plein began his career in the late 1970's when he founded KT Enterprises, Inc., a local landscape development firm. Today KT, along with its affiliate companies, provides turn-key site development solutions for some of the most prestigious home builders, developers, and commercial contractors in the Washington, D.C. area. Plein has served on several local and regional boards--Northern Virginia Transportation Alliance and NAIOP Northern Virginia to name just a few—is a past-president of the Northern Virginia Building Industry Association, and immediate past-president (after serving six years) of the Dulles South Alliance, an association of business and resident leaders dedicated to providing an open forum to the public on the future development opportunities in the Dulles South region. He chaired Capital Caring’s Building and Development Committee for the recently completed Adler Center for Caring, a state-of-the-art inpatient hospice center.

An involved citizen in the community in which he lives, Plein recognizes the great responsibility of giving back and supports many non-profits and charitable groups through not only a devotion of financial resources, but more importantly, time. From his mentorship of young leaders in commercial real estate through the George Mason Center for Real Estate and Entrepreneurship program and NAIOP Northern Virginia's Developing Leaders, to his guidance of the Arc360 program for Asian American Success students, Plein is dedicated to helping advance the social, personal and professional fulfillment of our young leaders.

In his spare time, Plein devotes himself to the White House Farm Foundation, a non-profit educational foundation established after his purchase of the 270 acre historic White House property in Luray, Virginia. Through the foundation, Plein hopes to enrich individuals with the knowledge of and involvement in our natural ecological systems, sustainable agriculture, holistic community planning, conservation, and respect for local history and culture.