Scott McIntyre

Scott is a lifelong entrepreneur and venture catalyst with a history of harnessing EdTech, FinTech and AgTech advancements to the benefit of job creators. Scott has spent the last 24 years combined helping chart paths for domestic industrial revitalization, and its capacity to fuel regional economies in new and productive ways. Scott founded startup co-op, Hemp Made Products and is a partner at Renaissance Park Corporation, a JV/R&D center focused on developing novel applications for legacy producers to help drive the regenerative agriculture movement, commencing with industrial hemp’s myriad historic and new applications. As a volunteer, in addition to his work at SCC, Scott served four terms as President & Chair (currently in his 8th term as Chair), of the Crowdfunding Professional Association, the leading 501(c)(6) trade group formed by the change agents behind the JOBS Act of 2012, and Crowdfunding’s inclusion into the continuum of regulated securities. Scott is active in venture communities and a frequent speaker in the U.S. and abroad, addressing audiences in the tens of thousands in China and Russia, and delivering keynote presentations to governments and global conferences in Australia, India and Honduras, and in Austria where the U.S. State Department selected him to address the European Union’s Finance Ministers on the subject of Alternative Finance. Scott maintains an active network of leading AltFin bodies with associates in over 20 countries. He currently serves as a senior advisor to a global network of family offices focused on impact investments, and served as Interim CEO of a unit of Groupo Venture Capital, a Chilean investment bank Scott is a recognized pioneer in Education Technology since his role as a founding executive of REAL Education in 1994, the startup that built the first online education platform, launching worldwide as eCollege at IPO in 1999. Now a cornerstone technology of a global education market leader, Pearson acquired eCollege for $477 million in 2007. While a Director at The University of Toledo, Scott envisioned, implemented and managed the school’s first Office of Student Entrepreneurship & Engagement, and managed the State of Ohio’s Edison Technology Incubation program. SCC’s entrepreneurship & workforce development programs carry on that work, now offering platforms able to guide aspiring innovators, academic institutions and growing companies into community partnerships focused on diversity, sustainability and prosperity.