Scott Weller Email Address

Senior Vice President Product Strategy at SessionM Inc, A Mastercard Company

SessionM is a customer engagement platform empowering the world s most innovative brands to forge stronger and more profitable customer relationships.

I seek to build new and innovative companies, technology and products. I am the CTO and co-founder of SessionM, the industry's first cloud platform for the end-to-end management of consumer loyalty through mobile applications. I have over 18 years of development and operational experience turning ideas into reality and leading technology teams through the challenges of early stage growth. My focus has been building teams and platforms for mobile applications, video streaming, gaming, loyalty, marketing automation, digital advertising and communications. Prior to SessionM, I served as Vice President of Product & Technology for Scientific Games (SGMS), Vice President of Product and Technology at GameLogic (acquired by Scientific Games in 2010), Co-Founder and GM of SnapYap.com, Principle Software Engineer at Terra / Lycos Inc, Senior Software engineer at Gamesville.com (acquired by Lycos for $207M in 1999). I have been working with technology and the internet since I was very young. When I was 14 I built my own multi-line BBS using a combination of DESQView, Spitfire and Wildcat. At the age of 15 I wrote and published my first MS-DOS shareware game using the FastGraph C/C++ libraries. At age 16, I joined a team of eight motivated geeks to help build country's first internet service provider (later acquired by Conversant Communications). I hold a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from the University Of Rhode Island. I am an active advisor / mentor for various startups and incubators, including TechStars. I have had the great honor of interacting with and advising companies such as Amino, EcoVent, BalbusSpeech (Speech4Good), Mapkin, MyLawsuit.com, Sundar.io, Woo and others. Specialties: Technology and product development for Internet/web technology, multi-player games, social media & interactive marketing technology, couponing, mobile development, local search, mapping, api development, build/test and release systems. Competitive analysis, patent review & development, regulated markets, content licensing contracts & negotiation, gaming law. iOS, Android, Linux, C, C++, Java, PHP, Ruby, MongoDB, Cassandra, Hadoop, node.js, JavaScript, JQuery, SQL, memcache, EC2, RDS.