Scot is a Managing Partner & Co-Founder of PromiseONE Companies (LinkedIn)
PromiseONE (P1) was founded in 2005 to help purpose driven leaders aspiring to become business owners acquire and grow existing companies. P1 helps its partners reach their full potential and maximize impact across all facets of their life as entrepreneurs. P1’s “promise” (i.e. purpose statement) is “Lifting Entrepreneurs Lifting Others”
Prior to his role as P1’s managing partner, Scot served as CEO of Fathom, an early P1 acquisition. Fathom is a national digital marketing firm that grew revenue over 450%, expanded from 25 to 100+ people and won multiple awards for growth and workplace culture. To date, PromiseONE has partnered with (10) people helping them go from employee to first time owner across (14) businesses using P1's Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) model.
Scot teaches acquisition entrepreneurship at The Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, where he received his MBA. Scot is a mentor and board member at Promise Partners, a non-profit acquisition entrepreneurship incubator that has helped over 65 people become first time business owners in over 85 companies in Cleveland. Scot is also on the board of the David L. Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry at Champlain College in Burlington VT.
Scot is married to Stephanie and has four children. You will find Scot and Stephanie around Cleveland or traveling the US in their "mobile office / home away from home" Sprinter van they named the "Dandelion" used to spend time with their family across the US, hiking, mountain biking and kite boarding as much as possible.
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