Entering his fourth year as editor-in-chief at Inc. Business Media, Scott oversees the brand’s recognition programs, events, community, and content across all platforms, while developing new lines of business that support founders and entrepreneurs. Most recently, that has included a breakthrough partnership with Black Tech Week around events and content for Black and Brown founders, the live video series Your Next Move, and Computer Freaks, new podcast on the untold history of the internet. He has also redesigned Inc.’s print and digital properties, launched an invitation-only community for high-growth entrepreneurs, partnered with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on a series of town halls, and created the white-hot Best in Business and Power Partner recognition programs.

At the Stevens Institute of Technology—a U.S. News & World Report Top 25 Innovation School—he is a professor in the School of Business and Technology, where he teaches marketing and entrepreneurship and serves as an entrepreneur-in-residence at the university’s Venture Center.

Until recently, he served as deputy chairman of the Leadership Council at the IKAR Global Institute, a business think tank with the mission to identify and equip one million young leaders for entrepreneurship around the world. Previously, he sat on the board of the MIT Enterprise Forum of New York City.

Prior to arriving at Inc., Scott advised startups and businesses in transition as a partner at HumanConsult.io, a consultancy at the intersection of content, commerce, and technology. There he employed the proprietary Quid Si methodology, a combination of rapid ideation, the lean canvas, and transformation management to help businesses in transition develop strategic plans, sales and marketing strategies, investment theses, and digital transitions. Additionally, he was co-founder of a wellness business for which he wrote the patent.

Scott is widely known for his 12-year tenure at This Old House, where, before its successful sale to private equity, he built a reputation as a creative strategist who took a beloved brand, polished its image, and built around it a tapestry of related businesses, including digital offshoots, Spanish-language TV, lead generation, affiliate revenue, licensed products, and a mobile game strategy. He oversaw English- and Spanish-language television shows, several websites, social channels, and a magazine. In an intrapreneurial role at its parent company, Time Inc., he was a C-suite adviser, sought out partnerships and acquisitions, and pioneered user-generated content, social video, AR, a mobile gaming strategy, lead generation, and other now-common digital technologies.

Prior to This Old House, Scott held senior positions in television, where he was variously an on-camera host and producer at Full Frontal Fashion and a partner at Kaufman Films, the creator of the Real Housewives franchise. Earlier in his career, Scott was an architect of Esquire magazine’s renaissance, increasing revenue 75 percent and overseeing brand licensing, and, while there, authoring four books in the Things a Man Should Know franchise, which he created and then co-wrote with Chopped host Ted Allen. As a journalist, he has covered style internationally for GQ, been a columnist at Details, and contributed to The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and other publications.

Honored with Ad Age A-List and Media Vanguard awards, Scott is a sought-after speaker on entrepreneurship, marketing, and branding, and often appears on television as a business, media, and lifestyle expert. He is a graduate of Gettysburg College and the Newhouse School at Syracuse University, where he obtained an MS in journalism.


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