I drive creative growth strategies that turn companies and business units into robust, profitable entities that drive value for investors and employees A decisive and energetic growth-oriented business leader, with a 20+ year background in both large high tech companies and small SaaS start-ups, and a proven track record in direct sales, business development, OEM sales and distribution channel management, my global senior leadership experience delivers operations and sales excellence. ► I sold Webcollage to Answers.com in April 2013. I have led the business integration of three SaaS divisions, WebCollage, Easy2, and Reseller Ratings, into common Answers.com process, policies, and sales procedures, taking three different sales processes and converting them into one integrated sales management system. ► As CEO of WebCollage, I turned around a struggling and unprofitable business by creating a new suite of SaaS products and services that pivoted the company into an attractive new business sector. This bold strategy I created new move grew ARR by over 200% while generating $5M+ in net profit. With management expertise and experience pushing into developing, disruptive, and rapidly growing markets in a fast-changing market like technology, I am in tune with user needs and the way the market shifts. Sales is a series of controlled experiments in terms of design, implementation, results analysis, and continual improvements. The traits I value that allow a sales leader to continually improve their experiments are adaptability, acting entrepreneurially, and thinking outside the box. My mission is to inspire employees with a vision, an execution strategy, and passion to seize success. Connect with me to learn more.

CEO @ CrowdTwist provides the most comprehensive omni-channel loyalty & analytics solutions for industry leading brands such as Pepsi, Nestle, VIZIO, Lean Cusine, Barclay's, Tom's, Lenovo, Zumiez and others. Our software helps build more profitable and active relationships with customers, delivers a deeper understanding of how customers engage across channels and drives a measurable increase in high value behaviors and spend. Founded in 2009, CrowdTwist is based in New York City’s Silicon Alley. From January 2015 to Present (10 months) Greater New York City AreaGM Answers Syndication ♦ VP Sales @ Answers’ mission is to empower consumers, brands, and organizations by connecting them with the information they need to make better-informed decisions. The Answers Platform leverages the sizable reach of the top-20 comScore site Answers.com, along with its leading cloud-based solutions from ForeSee, Webcollage, and ResellerRatings, to enable businesses and organizations to engage with customers at every interaction point, drive investment decisions from customer insights, and deliver content that powers the customer experience. This platform helps businesses measure and improve the multichannel customer experience, resulting in better business results. Answers is headquartered in St. Louis with offices in Ann Arbor, New York City, Silicon Valley, Cleveland, London, Vancouver, Atlanta, and Tel Aviv. After the sale of WebCollage to Answers.com, I became GM of Answers Syndication that covered a variety of marketing based SaaS products sold into the CMO office. I drive the business integration and sales of these purchased companies into unified process, policies, and sales procedures. ►Converted three heterogeneous sales processes and systems into one unified sales management and control system. ►While driving this difficult integration, Achieved 2014 sales goals. From April 2013 to December 2014 (1 year 9 months) Greater New York City AreaCEO ► Visionary Leadership ♦ Sales Operations ♦ M&A ♦ Strategic Planning ♦ Cloud Computing / SaaS @ WebCollage works with Fortune 1000 companies to extend their online presence with patented technology that automates the end-to-end sharing of web content and applications, enabling companies to reuse web content and applications across business partners’ websites. The Board of Directors elevated me from VP of Worldwide Sales to CEO in 2009. At that time, the company was burning a significant amount of cash and revenue was stagnant. As CEO, I pivoted Webcollage into new business sectors with the opportunity of tapping into significantly higher Total Available Markets. I drove operational excellence and generating positive cash flow ►Directed creation of new SaaS products and services that helped turn the company into a profitable and growing entity ►Re-engineered culture while staff size was being reduced, improving employee engagement and confidence. ►Sold Webcollage to Answers.com in an all cash deal As VP of Worldwide Sales since 2006, my focus had been to build the sales organization and focusing on new business opportunities. I was an active member of the Executive Committee, I helped drive fundraising, strategic planning, operational efficiencies, and process improvements initiatives. ►Generated 22% corporate revenue by opening numerous European market segments. ►Expanded sales revenue by >300%, with minimal headcount addition. From April 2006 to April 2013 (7 years 1 month) Greater New York City AreaDirector East Region ►Business Development ♦ Enterprise Software Solutions ♦ Growth Strategy @ Secure Computing was a global leader in enterprise security solutions. Secure Computing's award-winning solutions, powered by TrustedSource technology, proactively protected mission-critical business applications from Internet-borne threats. It was acquired by McAfee. Drawing on extensive enterprise software, successful sales team leadership, and cultivating relationships with manufacturers, retailers and VARs, I oversaw all OEM, Reseller, Direct and Reseller revenue for the Eastern US. Focusing on turning around underperforming region, drove distribution strategies, deal leveraging, and overall market penetration. ► Helped transition sales from a 100% direct sales to a 90% indirect sales model and I turned around the worst performing region to the 2nd best performing region ► Received the “Manager of the Year Award” for 2002 and #2 Sales Director in 2004 out of 11 global selling regions. From April 2002 to April 2006 (4 years 1 month) VP Sales ♦ Supply Chain Execution ♦ Market Positioning ♦ Strategic Planning ♦ Acquisition @ Optum offered a SaaS service that helped companies perform warehouse management and supply chain optimization. I ran worldwide sales for Optum and oversaw 300% increase in sales while launching a new service that rendered 12M in sales From March 2000 to March 2002 (2 years 1 month) White Plains NYVP, US Sales ♦ Business Development ♦ e-Commerce Software @ Interworld is a professional translation services provider. I served as VP of US Sales, a 66M division. From January 1998 to March 2000 (2 years 3 months) Director Eastern Region @ CTI vendor that integrated the telephone switch to the Computer Network From January 1997 to January 1998 (1 year 1 month) Sales Rep @ Sales Rep in NYC, was the 40th employee From February 1995 to February 1997 (2 years 1 month) Regional Manager @ I ran the NY Financial region with 3 districts reporting to me From January 1990 to January 1995 (5 years 1 month)

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance, Graduated with Honors. @ Pace University - Lubin School of Business From 1988 to 1992 Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Business Administration and Management, General @ Rochester Institute of Technology From 1979 to 1983 Scott Matthews is skilled in: Product Management, Cloud Computing, Salesforce.com, Product Marketing, Lead Generation, Account Management, Direct Sales, Pre-sales, Channel Partners, Leadership, Strategy, Analytics, Mobile Devices, Go-to-market Strategy, Sales Operations, Management, Networking, Team Leadership, Professional Services, Sales Enablement, Demand Generation, B2B, Sales Process, Competitive Analysis, Integrated Marketing, Contract Negotiation, E-commerce, Telecommunications