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Scott has over 30 years of experience building strategy, vision, and organizations from the ground up, and is a trusted advisor at the largest tech companies in the world. He has built world-leading security and product teams across multiple technology domains and is experienced in leading all aspects of security globally at companies including Microsoft, AWS, Google, and Coinbase.

As a Board Certified Qualified Technology Expert (QTE) with the Digital Directors network, Scott is able to apply his cybersecurity expertise to help boards oversee and enhance security policies and practices. Scott can enable organizations to achieve compliance with recent SEC guidelines that require board-level cybersecurity literacy.

Scott contributed foundational elements to the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), which is used to create secure software across the industry. He co-created Microsoft’s “Patch Tuesday” and built the teams that delivered Microsoft’s threat modeling concepts and tools. Scott is an expert in advanced persistent threats, ransomware, and emerging cybersecurity attacks. He led incident response at Microsoft and Google for global security events such as Spectre and Meltdown, Sasser, and MSBlaster. He created the Android Product Security Team that protects over 3 billion users and created one of the largest bug bounty programs in the world. In his current role as CISO, he leads the end-to-end security team for Coinbase Cloud. This includes all aspects of security ownership: operations, incident response, product security, key management, compliance, and protection for over $7B in funds.

Scott influences global security standards through multiple industry leadership roles across the OpenSSF and the Global Smartphone Manufacturers Association (GSMA). He serves on multiple advisory boards, contributing his expertise as a member of the Leadership Board for the Cybersecurity Collaboration Forum, the CISO Advisory Board for Unusual Ventures, and the CISO Governing Board at Evanta.