Luke Jacobs is Encamp’s CEO and helped launch the company in November 2017 as one of its co-founders. Before Encamp, he was an environmental scientist at GHD and a research associate III - project manager for Montana State University, a position funded through the National Science Foundation & U.S. Department of Energy and based in Bloomington, Indiana.
In 2020, Jacobs was included on the Environment + Energy Leader 100 list for his achievements in the environmental industry, and in 2021 was recognized in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2022 for Enterprise Technology. Jacobs also was appointed to Forbes’s Technology Council in 2021. As an advocate for the environment, Jacobs is an active researcher, writer and speaker on its behalf. He earned his B.S. in Environmental Science from Indiana University (IU) Bloomington, and also received a Certificate of Underwater Resource Management from IU.