Currently Scott is Co-Founder of
Startup High plus works with students at Elon University as an Instructor of Entrepreneurship, Coordinator of Student Entrepreneurship, and Advisor to the Entrepreneurship Living Learning Community and Innovation House.
Previously he worked with students through
Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship including
InCube. He also founded
Startup Madness, the ACC Tourney for Student Startups.
Scott was
Vice President - Investment Banking at KeySource Commercial Bank. He provides clients with M&A advisory in the buy/sell process, private placement of debt, interest rate protection, and business valuation.
Previously Scott was a marketing consultant helping organizations such as Greenville Hospital System and other non-profits adopt social computing tools. Previously he was an Internal Sales and Marketing Consultant at
IBM Global Services responsible for developing and implementing the technology strategy for the Application Services sales force. The past year new technologies have included
social software, mobile computing, and
browser add-ons. Day to day responsibilities include assessing the needs of the sales force, creating the technology strategy, leading web development teams in creating the tools, marketing the technology, and ultimately training the sales force. Key projects were
TeamIQ and
Social Software Stories Video series.
As part of his responsibilities, Scott was frequently asked to present business use case scenerioes to sales teams on how new technologies such as
web 2.0 will enable them to find information and experts faster. He has authored several articles read by thousands of IBMers and authors a weblog at
www.scottakelly.com.
Prior to his current role inside IBM, he was in IT Governance using
ITIL concepts and policies. In this role he consulted with clients such as
General Motors,
Nationwide, and
NiSource in their change management and root cause analysis processes.
Scott spent several years in the insurance industry working for
State Farm Insurance before joining IBM. During his tenure there, he became a Kentucky Licensed insurance agent in property & casualty and life & health.
International experience includes IBM projects in Madrid, Spain and Leeds, England, study abroad at the
Copenhagen Business School, and MBA Emerging Markets field trip to Bangkok, Thailand.
Scott holds a MBA from the
Fisher College of Business at
The Ohio State University where he was also an Adjunct Professor in the
Department of Management and Human Resources. His Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems came from
Western Kentucky University. He currently lives in Durham, North Carolina with his wife, two daughters, and one son.
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