Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Scott has over 20 years of strategy consulting, executive management, and business development experience working for some of the world’s most progressive companies to develop growth, value creation, acquisition, 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, strategic account development, and channel/alliance management. In addition, Scott has significant experience architecting programs that leverage next generation customer insight and analytics capabilities to identify value creation opportunities. At Waterstone, the majority of his focus is around evaluating and launching next generation product/solution plays within the payments, cloud computing, and connected commerce ecosystems.
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 driving next generation payments strategies, big deal pursuits, and partner/account strategy development and execution. Before joining MasterCard, he was Partner/Vice President with Capgemini’s Strategy and Transformation practice (formerly Ernst & Young Strategic Advisory Services) where he held both region and practice leadership roles (leading complex/global business transformation and merger integration engagements), a Managing Principal with Cresap/Towers Perrin’s general management consulting practice where he co-led the firm’s sales strategy practice, and also managed a joint venture with a Japanese strategy consulting firm (Corporate Directions, Inc., a BCG spinnoff). Scott started his consulting career as an Associate with AT 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. 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. Scott was recently named one of UCLA Anderson’s “100 Most Influential Alumni”.
