Me

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Bio

Andrew J Scott is a digital entrepreneur, whose interests include writing and film. A passionate advocate of mobile technologies and consumer internet services, Andrew advises a handful of tech start-ups as non-exec Director and consults on product, strategy and innovation.

After creating a subscription Atari fanzine, then irreverent school magazine in his early teens, Andrew set up an IT consultancy. His school were his first client with a budget of $100,000.

In 1998 Andrew started VirtualCities, a local business web portal with 150+ virtual city websites around the UK.  This pivoted to a web development company, exiting in 2001. Projects included the world’s first online digital video news archive (BritishPathe.com) with sister company Cambridge Imaging.

Other start-ups have included “InTraining” an interactive personal fitness website with Olympic athlete David Morgan, “DinnerDateAuctions” Europe’s first interactive SMS flirting service, CRM and direct marketing start-up “TelephoneWizard” and in 2001 started “playtxt” the world’s first location based mobile social network.

From 2006 until end of 2010, Andrew was Founder and CEO at the personalization and recommendation company Rummble. He was also on the board of UnLtdWorld, an online platform which connects and empowers social entrepreneurs, which in 2011 was acquired by The Guardian Media Group.

Andrew is on the advisory board of MLOVE (a next generation technology conference), is Chief Executive of a small independent film production company Port 20 Productions, non-exec Director at Chitter and is on the founding committee of ICE, the tech entrepreneur group. He splits his time between London and San Francisco.

Andrew tweets @andrewjscott

More Information

• LinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/in/andrewjscott
• Twitter: @andrewjscott
• Email:  myfirstname @ urbanhorizon.com