SCOTT BELSKY

executive / founder / investor / author
helping creative people, teams, and networks make ideas happen. 

(an official bio below, of the cut+paste variety)


 

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Scott Belsky is a builder, author, and investor (and all-around product obsessive). He currently serves as Adobe's Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President of Design & Emerging Products, after five years as Chief Product Officer of Creative Cloud. Scott's passion is to make the creative world more productive, connected, and adaptive to new technologies. Scott co-founded Behance in 2006, and served as CEO until Adobe acquired Behance in 2012. Over 50 million people use Behance to display their portfolios, as well as track and find top talent across the creative industries. After Behance's acquisition, Scott helped kick off Creative Cloud’s services and mobile product strategy and led Behance until 2016, when he left Adobe to spend a couple years as an investor at Benchmark and an advisor to multiple businesses before returning to Adobe in 2018.

Alongside his role at Adobe, Scott actively advises and invests in businesses that cross the intersection of technology and design - and help empower people. He is/was an early advisor and investor in Pinterest, Uber, sweetgreen, Carta, Cheddar, Airtable, Ramp, Meter, and Periscope as well as several others in the early stages.

Over the years, Scott has pursued other projects to help organize and empower the careers of creative people. These include 99U, Behance's think tank and annual conference devoted to execution in the creative world; and Action Method - a popular line of organizational products that help organize creative people and teams.

Scott is also the author of Implications, a widely-read industry newsletter sent monthly to tens of thousands of product leaders, investors, designers, and other leaders across the industry. He also authored the international bestselling books Making Ideas Happen (Portfolio Imprint, Penguin Books, Apr, 2010), and The Messy Middle (Portfolio Imprint, Penguin Books, Oct, 2018).

Scott is an advocate for technology and community initiatives that empower creative people and help businesses leverage the creative potential of their people. In 2010, Scott was also included in Fast Company's list of "100 Most Creative People in Business."

Prior to founding Behance in 2006, Scott helped grow the Pine Street Leadership Development Initiative at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Scott was especially focused on organizational improvement and strengthening relationships with clients. Scott serves on the Advisory Board of Cornell University's Entrepreneurship Program, the Boards of the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art). He attended Cornell University as an undergraduate and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. Scott and his family now live in New York City.