Scott, an industry veteran, has 20+ years of executive leadership, specializing in commercializing open-source tech for 18 years. Notable projects include Sun Microsystems Netbeans.org, Red Hat's gluster.org, ceph.org, Huawei's Open- SDS, Nicera (VMware), Hortonworks, Kublr and others. As President of SCVentures, he advises and guides open-source companies, in applying the right business, strategies and models for growth. Scott holds degrees in Computer Systems Engineering and International Business.