Scott has more than 20 years of strategy consulting and executive leadership experience across a broad range of domestic and international clients, partnering with senior executives to develop growth, value creation, and performance improvement strategies particularly in complex, technology enabled environments. He specializes in helping clients develop more customer-centric strategies for taking solutions to market, with an emphasis on sales and marketing strategy, product/offer development, value proposition refinement, channel/alliance management, and CRM strategy. In addition, Scott has a deep understanding of business process reengineering, operating model design, and performance improvement strategy. Specifically, he has managed multiple, large scale transformation, organization effectiveness, and post-merger integration efforts with a focus on revenue generating functions.
Prior to joining Waterstone, Scott was an executive with MasterCard Worldwide serving as a senior leadership team member within the advisory services business with significant responsibilities for big deal pursuits, partner/account strategy development, and execution. Before joining MasterCard, he was Partner/Vice President with Capgeminis Strategy & Transformation practice (formerly Ernst & Young Strategic Advisory Services) where he held both region and practice leadership roles, a Managing Principal with Cresap/Towers Perrins general management consulting practice where he co-lead the firm's sales strategy practice, and also managed a joint venture with a Japanese strategy consulting firm (Corporate Directions, Inc. - a BCG spin-off). Scott started his career in consulting as an Associate with A.T. Kearney's business and marketing strategy practice, and was a project director for a global marketing consulting and research firm.
Scott holds an MBA in finance and marketing from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received a BA in economics and a BA in international relations from the University of California, Berkeley. Scott has three children, and resides in Laguna Beach, California. He is a founding Board Member of the Pyramid Autism Center (and pro-bono COO), and a Board Member with Growers First - focusing on improving the economic sustainability of rural coffee farmers throughout the world.