Scott is a geek, business executive and strategic visionary. He started programming on paper tape in the 70s, had an email address on the arpanet in 85 and joined Sun Microsystems in the late 80s. Scott co-founded a successful ISP in the 90s, spent a decade as a Venture Capital investor in high tech startup companies, and most recently founded and led a clean tech company. Today his ambition is to lead Strategic Ventures that favor innovative and disruptive opportunities that do good.
At his core, he loves to lead, mentor and make a difference. He finds joy sharing growth through failure and lessons learned through success.
It’s that time of year once again. Over the weekend, tens of millions of Americans flocked to retailers nationwide to participate in Black Friday, with millions more heading online today for their holiday shopping. Over the next six weeks, families will reunite, turkeys will be consumed en masse, trees and houses will be aglow, and […]
It's a look at the nation's power grid that didn't used to exist -- until Midco helped make it happen.
"Until the launch of PENS, there was no comprehensive, independent source for power event insights. By aggregating data from communications networks, PENS delivers critical new insights down to the neighborhood level and does so in near real-time. Our partnership with Esri makes adding the PENS data layer to an existing dashboard, decision support tool or situational awareness application simple, fast and easy.”
“While almost 90% of all power outages occur in the distribution portion of the power grid, there remains a significant lack of visibility into the status of power availability and quality in the last miles of the electrical distribution grid."