Kevin Scott
 Kevin Scott    ( business executive) | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | 1972 | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | US | |||||||||||||
| Alma mater | • Lynchburg College • Wake Forest University • University of Virginia | |||||||||||||
| Interests | AI | |||||||||||||
Executive vice president of AI and Chief technology officer of Microsoft who attended the 2022 Bilderberg.
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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
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2022 | 2 June 2022 | 5 June 2022 | Washington 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 |
References
- ↑ https://news.microsoft.com/exec/kevin-scott/
- ↑ https://wamu.org/story/20/04/08/microsofts-kevin-scott-says-hes-reprogramming-the-american-dream/
- ↑ https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/kevin-scott-reprogramming-the-american-dream/
- ↑ https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/feeling-like-a-kid-in-a-candy-store-cto-kevin-scotts-job-is-to-keep-microsoft-focused/
- ↑ https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsoft-ai-artificial-intelligence-kevin-scott-b8954ff1
- ↑ https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/69417/senior-engineer-leaves-google-to-become-admobs-q.html
- ↑ https://techcrunch.com/2007/10/16/exclusive-admob-snares-googles-kevin-scott/
- ↑ https://techcrunch.com/2011/02/07/another-admob-exec-leaves-google-kevin-scott-joins-linkedin-as-vp-of-engineering/
- ↑ http://www.businessinsider.com/kevin-scott-2011-2
- ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-04-10/inside-operation-inversion-the-code-freeze-that-saved-linkedin
- ↑ http://www.businessinsider.com/meet-the-engineer-who-saved-linkedin-2013-4
- ↑ {https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-names-linkedin-executive-to-tech-chief-role-1485286646
- ↑ https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/24/microsoft-cto/
- ↑ https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/feeling-like-a-kid-in-a-candy-store-cto-kevin-scotts-job-is-to-keep-microsoft-focused/
- ↑ Presentation at Stellantis global website
