Kevin Scott | |
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 Scott on stage in 2018 | |
| Born | 1972 |
| Alma mater | Lynchburg College Wake Forest University University of Virginia |
| Occupation | Microsoft Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer |
Kevin Scott (born 1972) serves as Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft.[1] He was previously Senior Vice President of Engineering and Operations at LinkedIn from February 2011 to January 2017.[2][3]
Kevin Scott grew up in Gladys, Virginia.[4][5] 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.[6]
Kevin Scott started his career at Google in 2003 and held numerous positions in search and ads engineering, including receiving a Google Founders' Award, before leaving the company in 2007.[7] He was VP of engineering and operations at AdMob from July 2007 to June 2010.[8] Google acquired AdMob in 2010 for $750 million (~$1.02 billion in 2023) and Scott became Sr. Engineering Director of mobile ads engineering at Google.[9]
Scott joined professional networking site LinkedIn in February 2011, as senior vice president for engineering.[10] 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.[11] Business Insider called Scott "the engineer who saved LinkedIn".[12]
In January 2017, soon after Microsoft acquired LinkedIn, Scott was named Microsoft's Chief Technology Officer by CEO Satya Nadella.[13] He retained the title of senior vice president of infrastructure at LinkedIn until September 2017.[14] Scott described himself as feeling "like a kid in a candy store" because of all the exciting technologies Microsoft is working on.[6]
Scott is the founder of Behind the Tech, a non-profit organization that profiles people who work in technology on its website through photographs and interviews with the goal of inspiring others.[15] In 2014, Scott and his wife, Shannon Hunt-Scott, created The Scott Foundation, a San Francisco Bay Area organization that focuses on issues such as education, hunger, and STEM for children. He is also an emeritus trustee of the Anita Borg Institute[16] and was a founding member of the ACM Professions Board.[17] He advises several startups, is on the board of directors for Magic, and is an angel investor.[18] 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.[19]
