Scott Kleper

Scott is the Co-founder and CTO of Context Optional, Inc., the first social media marketing company, providing an enterprise social media management platform for large brands. Context Optional was purchased by Efficient Frontier in 2011, which was purchased by Adobe in 2012. Scott is currently a Principal Scientist at Adobe, one of the highest levels of technical achievement that Adobe awards. Scott co-authored of Professional C++ (Wiley, 2005), which has been used as a textbook for a class at Stanford University, as well as other schools. He has also written a number of posts, poems, and memoirs of the startup process at http://klep.me/ Scott has invested in a number of startups, both consumer and enterprise. He serves on the CS Education Advisory Committee at Stanford and on Adobe's Architecture Council.