Scott Meyer

Current

• Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Warburg Pincus

Past

• CEO & President at About.com, Inc.
• CEO at About.com (NY Times)
• VP, Strategic Planning at The Boston Globe / New York Times Company

• Vice President & General Manager at The New York Times Digital
• VP & General Manager at NYTimes.com
• Vice President & General Manager at Multex.com (now part of Reuters)
• VP & General Manager at Multex
• Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group
• Senior Financial Analyst at Merrill Lynch & Co.

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Education

• Harvard Business School
• Brown University

Recommended

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Online Media

Websites

• Paid Content.org
• iMedia Connection
• Crunchbase

Scott Meyer’s Summary

Scott B. Meyer is an accomplished senior executive with a track record of successfully leading fast growing digital media properties. From 2005-2008, Scott was president and CEO of About.com, a part of The New York Times Company. During his tenure, the company experienced unprecedented growth. Revenues and profits tripled, with About.com reaching over $100 million in revenue. Scott was also the driving force behind a series of new product launches, strategic acquisitions and the launch of About.com in China.

Scott has more than 10 years of media leadership experience. He spent eight years with The New York Times Company in a number of senior management roles. In addition to his role at About.com, he was the General Manager of the company's flagship website, The New York Times on the Web (www.nytimes.com). He also served as vice president, strategic planning for The Boston Globe. Before joining The New York Times Company, Scott was with Multex.com (a venture-backed company which was acquired by Reuters in 2003 after a successful IPO in 1999), where he was Vice President and General Manager of its business-to-consumer division. Before beginning his media career, Scott worked in management consulting at The Boston Consulting Group and in investment banking at Merrill Lynch & Co.

Scott holds an A.B. in Public Policy and American Institutions from Brown University, where he was a winner of the Rouse Prize for Economics and was selected as a White Intern. He also has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Scott is active in a number of charitable and alumni causes and resides in New York City with his wife and two children.

In addition to his role at Warburg Pincus, Scott is a Director of Go2Media (www.go2.com), an Advisor to Kosmix Corporation (www.kosmix.com) and an advisor to Bestcovery.com

Scott Meyer’s Specialties:

Leadership, managing and growth digital media businesses, sales, business development, marketing & pr

Scott Meyer’s Experience

• Entrepreneur-in-Residence

  Warburg Pincus

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  I'm a part of the Internet team within the firm’s Technology, Media and Telecommunications practice. I will be looking at growth equity companies in the Internet and media space to find new investment opportunities.
  
  Warburg has $35 billion under management and, since inception about 40 years ago, has invested $29 billion in more than 600 companies.

• CEO & President

  About.com, Inc.

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; NYT; Online Media industry)

  June 2005 — March 2008 (2 years 10 months)

  A division of The New York Times Company

• CEO

  About.com (NY Times)

  (Public Company; Online Media industry)

  June 2005 — March 2008 (2 years 10 months)

• VP, Strategic Planning

  The Boston Globe / New York Times Company

  (Public Company; Online Media industry)

  2003 — 2005 (2 years)

• Vice President & General Manager

  The New York Times Digital

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; NYT; Online Media industry)

  May 2000 — April 2003 (3 years)

  P&L responsibility for the website of The New York Times

• VP & General Manager

  NYTimes.com

  (Public Company; Online Media industry)

  2000 — 2003 (3 years)

• Vice President & General Manager

  Multex.com (now part of Reuters)

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; MLTX; Online Media industry)

  May 1998 — April 2000 (2 years)

• VP & General Manager

  Multex

  (Public Company; Online Media industry)

  1998 — 2000 (2 years)

• Consultant

  The Boston Consulting Group

  (Partnership; 1001-5000 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  September 1996 — April 1998 (1 year 8 months)

• Senior Financial Analyst

  Merrill Lynch & Co.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Mer; Investment Banking industry)

  June 1991 — June 1994 (3 years 1 month)

Scott Meyer’s Education

• Harvard Business School

  MBA , September 1994 — June 1996

  Activities and Societies:

  Section President

• Brown University

  AB , Public Policy & American Insitutions , August 1987 — May 1991

Additional Information

Scott Meyer’s Websites:

• Paid Content.org
• iMedia Connection
• Crunchbase

Scott Meyer’s Interests:

Skiing; Wrangling my two kids;

Scott Meyer’s Groups:

Harvard Business School Club of New York

•    Advertising Professional
•    Online Advertising Professionals
•    Brown Alumni Association
•    Behavioral Targeting Standards Consortium
•    Harvard Business School Alumni
•    Linked CEO
•    The New York Times Company (This group is not affiliated with or sponsored by The New York Times)
•    NYTdConnected

Scott Meyer’s Contact Settings

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• expertise requests
• reference requests
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