Kevin Scott

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Person.png Kevin Scott  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(business executive)
Kevin Scott.jpg
Born1972
NationalityUS
Alma materLynchburg College, Wake Forest University, University of Virginia
InterestsAI
Executive vice president of AI and Chief technology officer of Microsoft who attended the 2022 Bilderberg.

Employment.png Chief technology officer

In office
January 2017 - Present
EmployerMicrosoft
Attended Bilderberg/2022

Kevin Scott is executive vice president of AI and chief technology officer of Microsoft.[1]

Education

Kevin Scott grew up in Gladys, Virginia.[2][3] He holds a bachelor's degree from Lynchburg College in computer science and a master's degree from Wake Forest University in computer science.

He enrolled in a Ph.D. program at the University of Virginia.[4]

Career

After dropping out of his doctoral program in 2003,[5] Scott started his career at Google and held numerous positions in search and ads engineering, including receiving a Google Founders' Award, before leaving the company in 2007.[6] He was VP of engineering and operations at AdMob from July 2007 to June 2010.[7] Google acquired AdMob in 2010 for $750 million and Scott became Sr. Engineering Director of mobile ads engineering at Google.[8]

Scott joined professional networking site LinkedIn in February 2011, as senior vice president for engineering.[9] LinkedIn held its initial public offering in May 2011, and Scott was credited with scaling the company's computer systems to keep up with accelerating demand.[10] Business Insider called Scott "the engineer who saved LinkedIn".[11]

Microsoft

In January 2017, soon after Microsoft acquired LinkedIn, Scott was named Microsoft's chief technology officer by CEO Satya Nadella.[12] He retained the title of senior vice president of infrastructure at LinkedIn until September 2017.[13] Scott described himself as feeling "like a kid in a candy store" because of all the exciting technologies Microsoft is working on.[14]

Since January 17, 2021, he is member of the board of directors of the automobile manufacturer Stellantis as non-executive Director and member of the ESG Committee.[15]


 

Event Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/20222 June 20225 June 2022Washington DC
Mandarin Oriental Hotel
US
The 68th Bilderberg Meeting, held in Washington DC, after an unprecedented two year hiatus during which a lot of the Bilderberg regulars were busy managing COVID-19
Many thanks to our Patrons who cover ~2/3 of our hosting bill. Please join them if you can.


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