Chief Operating Officer at StarPound
Greater Atlanta Area
- Current
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- Chief Operating Officer at StarPound
- Co-Founder at StartupLounge.com
- Past
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- Interim CEO, CEO and Chairman at PlayMotion!
- Founder at PeachPods.com
- Founder at HiddenMarket Group, Inc.
- Founder at Incursio, Inc.
- VP Technology at MetalMaker, Inc. / iXL
- Director at Various IT consulting gigs/firms
- Education
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- Thomas Edison State College
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Scott Burkett’s Summary
Scott Burkett’s Specialties:
Business/startup planning, strategy, venture capital, financial management (P&L), business modeling, technology, system architecture & design, product management
Scott Burkett’s Experience
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Chief Operating Officer
StarPound
(Computer Software industry)
May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
StarPound offers a new open-source platform that represents a beautiful fusion of business process management (BPM), telephony, and enterprise web services (SOA). It allows you to visually mash up voice, data, business processes, and web services in ways previously only imagined. Very cool stuff.
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Co-Founder
StartupLounge.com
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
2006 — Present (3 years )
A grassroots community organization which aims to promote fast-growth entrepreneurship in the Southeast. StartupLounge.com offers podcasts, free educational seminars for entrepreneurs, angel investor peer group meetings (Angel Lounge), and quarterly venture capital events which attract hundreds of investors and entrepreneurs from around the region. Under Mr. Burkett’s leadership StartupLounge.com has become a leading voice of the startup landscape in Atlanta and the Southeast United States.
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Interim CEO, CEO and Chairman
PlayMotion!
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Entertainment industry)
June 2007 — March 2008 (10 months)
In his most recent position as interim-CEO, and later CEO/Chairman of PlayMotion, Inc., Mr. Burkett achieved record revenues of $1.5M in 2007 and grew the business by 86%. After expanding the pipeline from $200K to nearly $10M, Mr. Burkett also lowered the cost of sales by 17% and rolled out a new product line. Under his leadership, PlayMotion secured new business and strategic relationships with Walt Disney, Cartoon Network, NASCAR, Bravo TV, Sanofi Aventis, SEGA, and AMC Theaters. During his tenure, PlayMotion earned a Top 10 Innovative Company award from the Technology Association of Georgia.
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Founder
PeachPods.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Media Production industry)
February 2005 — February 2008 (3 years 1 month)
PeachPodStudios is a leading provider of professional, studio-quality corporate podcast production services. Our customers include EarthLink and MFG.com. Now a passive shareholder.
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Founder
HiddenMarket Group, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)
2005 — 2007 (2 years )
Provided pro-bono mentoring services to over a dozen early-stage companies, encompassing capital raising, business planning, technology architecture and infrastructure, and operations.
Launched blog (scottburkett.com) focusing on venture capital, entrepreneurship, and technology in the Southeast (currently ranked in the top 1% of all blogs by Technorati)
Launched StartupLounge.com, a podcast and online community for early-stage entrepreneurs
Launched prototype of a business intelligence focused online social network
Founded the “Gang of 5” (a unique early-stage entrepreneurial advisory network)
Keynote speaker on topics including entrepreneurship, venture capital, and new media/online social networks for organizations such as the 400 Technology Connection, ATDC, Kettering Executive Network, ACPI, ExecuNet, and Team Ivy -
Founder
Incursio, Inc.
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
2000 — 2005 (5 years )
Founder of a diversified software & services firm focused on early-stage ventures and incubation.
Successfully founded, developed, matured, and sold several technology-based ventures.
Brought to market an enterprise software license management and enforcement platform, providing first-generation remote software license management capabilities for applications developed across multiple technology platforms (C/C++, Java, PHP);
Brought to market an enterprise level user-to-user rating engine. Created additional revenue streams by introducing data conversion and integration services. Expanded the service portfolio by introducing an ASP service focusing on remote image analysis. Sold both businesses (with nearly 400 global clients) to privately-held UK-based firm.
Founded and sold niche B2B commerce platform; grew assets to 500K SKUs and $65M total value.
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VP Technology
MetalMaker, Inc. / iXL
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year )
• B2B net market maker on the supply side of the steel industry.
• Instrumental in the MetalMaker executive team raising a Series-B round of $13M, lead by Lehman Ventures
• Steered the MetalMaker product development team through several critical milestones, including the rollout of MetalMaker’s online MRO procurement system
• Implemented key JAD/RAD processes and methodologies for iXL’s B2B engineering unit
• Spearheaded all aspects of vendor management (screening, selecting, integrating, and managing)
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Director
Various IT consulting gigs/firms
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1994 — 2000 (6 years )
Cambridge Technology Partners (acquired by Novell)
CAP Gemini
Decision Consultants, Inc. (DCI)
Scott Burkett’s Education
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Thomas Edison State College
Bachelor of Science , Business Administration
Double major in Computer Information Systems (CIS)
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Scott Burkett’s Interests:
Gadgets, games, guitar, music recording/sound engineering, oil painting, outdoors
Scott Burkett’s Groups:
Board of Directors, Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN)
Member, Technology Assocation of Georgia (TAG)
Board of Directors, TAG Business & Technology Alliance (BTA)
Member, Kettering Executive Network (KEN)
Member, ExecuNet
Member, Society of the 3rd Infantry Division
Advisory Board Participation: Group One Solutions, Inc. (provider of homeland security/first responder software platform), Meisner Acrylic Casting
Patron of Atlanta's High Museum of Art
Volunteer, Habitat for Humanity
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StartupLounge.com
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