B. SCOTT BURKETT
Serial Entrepreneur, Tech-Geek, Dad

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In his most recent position as interim-CEO, and later CEO/Chairman of PlayMotion, Inc., Mr. Burkett achieved record revenues of $1.5M in 2007 and grew the business by 86%. After expanding the pipeline from $200K to nearly $10M, Mr. Burkett also lowered the cost of sales by 17% and rolled out a new product line. Under his leadership, PlayMotion secured new business and strategic relationships with Walt Disney, Cartoon Network, NASCAR, Bravo TV, Sanofi Aventis, SEGA, and AMC Theaters. During his tenure, PlayMotion earned a Top 10 Innovative Company award from the Technology Association of Georgia.

As founder and CEO of Incursio, Inc., he was responsible for the incubation, and technology infrastructure for a variety of technology ventures including:

• an online image analysis ASP (sold the business)
• a popular P2P rating engine (sold the business)
• a portable software license management platform (C/C++, J2EE, PHP) (sold the business)
• a boutique web hosting provider serving 5K+ clients (sold the business)
• a niche B2C/B2B hybrid commerce site which grew to over 500,000 SKUs and inventories of $65M (sold the business)
• a 65,000+ subscriber online creative community (sold the business)
• a business intelligence social network (failed miserably - that’s life!)

He is an active member of the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG), and sits on the Board of Directors (and is the current Chair) for the TAG Business & Technology Alliance (B&TA).

Mr. Burkett is one of the founding entrepreneurs of the original “Gang of 5“, an entrepreneurial advisory network.

Mr. Burkett is a co-host of the monthly StartupLounge.com podcast, which provides a focus on entrepreneurship and venture capital in the southeast. He is also a co-founder and principal organizer of StartupLounge’s Capital Connections events, which draw hundreds of fast-growth entrepreneurs and investors each quarter.

Demonstrating a passion and commitment to quality and process improvement, Mr. Burkett holds a certification in Six Sigma, and has experience in a TQM environment. He assisted a key client in their successful effort to win the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, as well as a 2,000+ person consulting firm achieving Ford Motor Company’s Q1 Quality Certification. Mr. Burkett is a former member of the Board of Directors for the Carnegie-Mellon/SEI sponsored Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN).

Prior to Incursio, he served as the Vice President of Technology & Development for MetalMaker, Inc., a venture-backed startup B2B exchange on the supply side of the steel industry. There, Mr. Burkett was instrumental in the management team’s raising of a $13M Series-B round of funding led by Lehman Ventures. While at MetalMaker, Mr. Burkett steered the product engineering team through the development of MetalMaker’s online MRO procurement system and contract management platform. He also performed vendor screening, management, and integration, working with top-tier technology partners such as Oracle, i2, Silknet, and Sun Microsystems.

Before joining the MetalMaker executive team, Mr. Burkett held senior positions with iXL, Cambridge Technology Partners and CAP Gemini America. During his IT and management consulting career, Mr. Burkett focused on providing IT strategy, engineering, and assimilation solutions for a portfolio of primarily Fortune 500 clients, including Goldman Sachs, Chase Manhattan, Citibank, GTE, Bellsouth, Zurich-Kemper, American Airlines, Ford Motor Company, Franklin-Templeton, and IBM.

Prior to his consulting career, Mr. Burkett began his career as a Sr. Programmer with Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Georgia, and Total System Services (TSYS) (NYSE: TSS). While working in the bankcard division of TSYS, Mr. Burkett took the lead and successfully completed a migration of an MVS/Assembler-based report management system which resulted in enhanced reporting visibility for TSYS banking clients, who represented over 30 million bankcard holders. Additionally, he increased the efficiency of the TSYS Accounting Services group by designing and developing a PC-based VISA and MasterCard settlement system (processing hundreds of thousands of transactions per day).

Mr. Burkett is a published author, having co-authored The Linux Programmer’s Guide, The New Linux Book, and The Linux Programming Whitepapers. He has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine, Computerworld, Datamation, and the Atlanta Business Chronicle. He has written feature articles for such magazines as TechLINKS, WebSmith Magazine and The Linux Journal. He has been featured as a speaker or host at events sponsored by such organizations as Draper Fisher Jurvetson, the Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement (APRA), The Technology Association of Georgia (TAG), Team Ivy, ExecuNet, The 400 Technology Connection, The Kettering Executive Network, Association of Career Professionals International (ACPI), and i-Compass.

Mr. Burkett holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a double major in Computer Information Systems from Thomas A. Edison State College, and is a cold-war veteran of the U.S. Army’s Third Infantry Division.

Mr. Burkett lives in the Atlanta, Georgia area with his wife and daughter. He and his wife are avid art collectors, and patrons of Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, and are involved in a number of charities, including the Susan G. Komen Foundation, Habitat for Humanity, and the Humane Society.