Scott Bagby

Executive in Residence

Scale-up experience:

Vice President, New Markets at Skype

• Employee #13 at Skype responsible for 90% of Skype’s total revenue via their telecom business revenues
• Led the market development strategies for Asia, South America, Europe
• Grew organization from $0 to $800MM in revenue – 90% of revenue base

International President, Rdio

• Responsible for establishing and running all Rdio territories outside the U.S.
• Established and opened offices in 85 different markets including India, Singapore, Australia, the UK, Germany, Japan, Brazil, Mexico and more

Noteworthy:

• Set-up multiple international joint ventures with business leaders from Nova Entertainment, and Grupo Bandeirandtes de Comunicaçã0 while at Rdio, and tom.com while at Skype
• Supported Starbucks as they expanded into China via local license holder including site selection and negotiating market entry
• Active entrepreneur of A Retail Space, navigated headwinds caused by COVID in the physical retail space to a successful merger

Ask me about:

• International expansion
• Scaling international sales processes