Prior to joining Longhaus Scott’s career spans 20 years within the Financial Services sector as programmer, consultant and long-serving CIO. He has held senior management and executive positions in both business (financial) and IT roles including most recently as CIO of one of Australia’s leading stock-broking firms, Wilson HTM Investment Group. His rich career experience provides him with a proven and pragmatic approach to enterprise technology strategy development, risk mitigation, and analytical market research.

Scott has recently emerged as a global thought leader in enterprise cloud computing adoption and brings with him an unparalleled practical and hands-on implementation experience. He maintains a prolific social computing profile in addition to making regular contributions to traditional industry publications and industry events as an in-demand and engaging public speaker.

Scott’s research covers a broad number of disciplines including cloud computing, emerging technologies, ICT strategy, the CIO role, and information management as well as the increasing impact of social media and mobile computing on the enterprise. Through Longhaus, Scott leverages a career of insight together with well researched methods, tools, techniques and a wealth of data to equip clients with the guidance and decisions to ensure maximum business value from their technology investments.

Scott has undertaken extensive industry and tertiary studies, including through the Harvard Business School in Boston, and a Doctoral Candidacy at the Queensland University of Technology. He was awarded the QUT 2009 Executive Dean’s award for outstanding academic excellence for achieving the highest grade point average and in the same year was accepted into the prestigious Golden Key International Honour Society.

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