Scot is the CEO & Co-Founder of Classy, the world's first social impact platform. Since 2011, Classy has helped more than 2,500 nonprofits and social enterprises raise hundreds of millions of dollars including Oxfam America, The World Food Program and National Geographic. This year Classy was named to "The World's Most Innovative Companies in Social Good" by Fast Company, and to the "100 Brilliant Companies" list by Entrepreneur Magazine.

Classy is a social enterprise that creates world-class online fundraising software for nonprofits, modernizing the giving experience to accelerate social impact around the world. Since 2011, we've enabled millions of donations from over 190 countries. Based in San Diego, CA, Classy is trusted by more than 4,000+ organizations of all sizes and causes, from major events like disease outbreaks, disasters, mass shootings, and social movements, to mainstay world challenges like environmental issues, child trafficking, human rights, and animal rights.

As a high-growth venture-backed startup CEO, an active angel investor and also one of Businessweek’s ‘Top 5 Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs’, Scot speaks around the country on a variety of topics including social entrepreneurship, leadership, fundraising, startup growth and operations, and the disruption of the traditional ‘for-profit’ and ‘nonprofit’ business models. His speaking portfolio includes TEDx, Dreamforce, Collision, SOCAP, Inbound and more. He’s also a ‘most viewed’ and ‘published’ writer on Quora on similar topics.