My passion and mastery of craft is as an expert level search consultant who builds startups and emerging growth technology ventures. We add value by focused search and hiring of key persons and teams who go on to create tens of millions of dollars in real business value through execution and the development of compelling products and services. Most of the last 20 years have been spent on the inside of fast moving technology ventures working with founders, board, executive teams and managers in the capacity of trusted consultant and adviser. Specialties: IoT, Virtual Reality,Augmented Reality, AR/VR, OpenGL, CUDA, Multithreading, Parallel processing, Oculus, VR, Virtualization, Visualization, Vision Processing, Cloud gaming, Virtual Reality, Cloud, OpenStack, OpenSource, Hadoop, Big Data, Machine Learning, Digital Marketing, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Networking ,Security, Linux/Unix Kernel Our organizational expertise is in: Entire teams, *C -level Executives, Engineering, product development, Product management, Marketing, Sales

Global Talent Advisor/Executive Search Consultant @ The Data Center Group (DCG) drives new products technologies from high-end co-processors for supercomputers to low-energy systems for enterprise and the cloud, as well as solutions for big data and intelligent devices. The group is a worldwide organization that develops the products and technologies that power nine of every 10 servers sold worldwide. From July 2015 to Present (6 months) Executive Search Consultant - Founder/Managing Partner @ Great People's core expertise is hiring key engineers, product teams and executives for venture backed startups and emerging growth companies. Our focus is on building complete organizations and high velocity teams who deliver a successful outcome. Working in tandem with founders and executive management teams we function as an dedicated search and strategic recruiting partner. From July 1997 to Present (18 years 6 months) Executive Search Consultant/Talent Acquisition Leader @ Matterport is a 3D media startup shaking up the 3D world. Our team has developed an end-to-end 3D media platform that allows anyone to create, edit, and share 3D models of real-world spaces. From November 2014 to December 2015 (1 year 2 months) Director, Talent Acquisition/Executive Search @ In August 2012 Lauder Partners acquired the assets of OnLive, Inc. to form OL2. Equipped with a substantial patent portfolio covering streaming low latency-sensitive CPU/GPU intensive applications for enterprise, cloud solutions,3D simulation and cloud gaming. Successfully built and managed strategic sourcing and recruiting teams, hired core engineering, devops, infrastructure, product, and executive teams. Set up complete recruiting infrastructure and achieved a 95% offer acceptance rate while maintaining exceptionally low cost per hire metrics. From September 2012 to April 2015 (2 years 8 months) Talent Acquisition/Executive Search Consultant @ Jaunt's technology combines computational photography, statistical algorithms, massively parallel processing, cutting-edge hardware and virtual reality. Hired by Redpoint Ventures entrepreneur in residence/founders to build and grow early stage core teams in companies first year. Successfully attracted and hired vp content sw/hw and infrastructure helping launch this dynamic new category venture from incubation stage though A & B funding rounds in one year. JauntVR has now reached orbit and is leading the charge, building the future of this emerging new technology platform called Cinematic VR. From October 2013 to October 2014 (1 year 1 month) Talent Acquisition/Executive Search Consultant @ Privately held, profitable, under the radar technology startup http://247-inc.com/ offers Cloud based Predictive Experience (PX) Platform that manages more than 2.5 billion speech and online self-service interactions annually. From July 2012 to October 2012 (4 months) Talent Acquisition/Executive Search Consultant @ From July 2011 to May 2012 (11 months) Talent Acquitition/Executive Search Consultant @ Security Software, cloud, mobile markets. From January 2011 to September 2011 (9 months) Talent Acquisition/Executive search consultant @ Sourced/Recruited Infoblox’s first Director Hardware Engineering, ATG Group - Principal Engineers and Sr server side sw engineers, Santa Clara/ Vancouver BC. From January 2011 to May 2011 (5 months) Talent Acquisition/Executive Search Consultant @ Digital Marketing Technology Company offering SaaS based Audience Data Cloud. Responsible for full life cycle recruiting and executive search across full company spectrum. From November 2008 to December 2010 (2 years 2 months) Executive Search Consultant, Sr contract recruiter @ Can not say From September 2008 to February 2009 (6 months) Executive Search Consultant, Diversity Recruiter, Strategic sourcing @ Executive Search Group - Diversity Strategic Sourcing Senior member of a 2 person pilot diversity recruiting initiative chartered to increase Intel’s executive level diversity hiring for Digital Enterprise Group. Helped design and execute program, exceeded all milestones and program marked as outstanding success with Intel executive management. Executive Search for Principal Engineers, Fellows, Architects and VP's within Digital Enterprise Group. Specializing in the areas of Circuit Design, Validation, Component Design, Automation tools, 3D Graphics, Ingredient stack including CPU, Chipsets, Memory Solutions, Data Storage, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Opensource, Linux Kernel. From September 2007 to February 2009 (1 year 6 months) Executive search consultant, Sr contract recruiter, sourcer @ Senior executive member of elite US based strategic sourcing group specializing in identifying, engaging and hiring the top minds in the analytical finance universe for HSBC USA Card and Retail Services. Roles ranged from Sr Analyst to SVP/GM. Skill sets encompass all aspects of Data Driven Qualitative and Quantitative Marketing Analytics/ Strategies, Risk, Finance, Analytical Modeling, Search technologies, etc. From September 2006 to February 2009 (2 years 6 months) Executive Search Consultant, Sr contract recruiter @ From October 2005 to March 2006 (6 months) Executive Search, Sr contract recruiter, Sourcing Manager @ Hired by founder/CEO of this 4 person early stage startup. Hired first Architects, early engineering and executive teams. Acquired by IBM in 2010. From September 2001 to August 2002 (1 year) Executive Search Consultant, Sr contract recruiter @ Was brought into this early stage 10 person start up in peer-assisted content delivery technology space. Hired initial core engineering and infrastructure teams. Company was acquired by VeriSign in 2006. From November 2000 to October 2001 (1 year) Executive Search, Sourcing - Recruitment Consultant @ Brought in by CEO to hire Principal MPLS Engineers/Architects for this early stage leading IP/MPLS edge routing startup. Acquired by Alcatel in 2003. From December 2000 to September 2001 (10 months) Executive Search, Sr contract recruiter, Recruitment manager @ Hired by company CTO/GM to rebuild key Executive/Engineering teams resulting from recent acquisition of a company called Resumix. Rebuilt executive teams, VP Engineering, VP Professional Services and key developers along with other infrastructure roles. HotJobs was acquired by Yahoo at the end of 2001. From 2000 to 2001 (1 year) Executive Search Consultant, Sr contract recruiter, Manager @ Hired by CEO of this young start up to build out sr engineering and executive teams. Network Alchemy developed the industry's first PPTP/L2TP CryptoCluster IPSec and IKE VPN server solutions with Triple DES encryption. We were acquired by Nokia at just over 80 employees in February 2001. From February 1999 to January 2000 (1 year) Executive Search Consultant, Sr contract recruiter, Manager @ Hired by early investors of this brand new 10 person start up to manage and build technical/business, marketing and executive teams. Worked closely with CEO and founder to hire early engineering and critical Sr. Management teams. From May 1998 to August 1999 (1 year 4 months) Executive Recruiting Consultant, Sr contract recruiter @ Hired to build out Global Customer services and support,Tier 1 through tier 3 doubling the organization 50-100 in 7 Months. Remedy AR System was a market leading client–server software application development environment. Acquired by BMC From July 1997 to January 1998 (7 months) Executive Recruiting Consultant, Staffing Manager @ From September 1996 to September 1997 (1 year 1 month) Executive Recruiting Consultant @ From March 1997 to August 1997 (6 months) Sr Technical Recruiting Consultant @ Unwired Planet Inc. (Openwave) Recruited by the CEO following the A round of funding to build out all core engineering , executive management and infrastructure teams. Responsible for hiring the first 80 employees in this early innovator of Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) for the mobile phone sector. From April 1996 to July 1997 (1 year 4 months) Executive Search Consultant @ From July 1996 to November 1996 (5 months) Sr Technical Recruiter/Talent Ambassador @ Netscape Communications Corporation - Sr. Technical Recruiter/Talent Ambassador -6/95 to 6/96 From June 1995 to June 1996 (1 year 1 month) Sr Technical Recruiter/Recruiting Lead/Manager @ Sun Microsystems - Sr. Technical Recruiter/Manager - 12/93 - 6/95 Responsible for hiring technology and product teams for project DOE, First Person (Became JavaSoft), and Sun Labs. From December 1993 to June 1995 (1 year 7 months) Sr Technical Recruiter @ Rational Software Inc. - Sr. Technical Recruiter - 4/93 to 12/93 From April 1993 to December 1993 (9 months)

Scott Knowles is skilled in: Start-ups, Technical Recruiting, Executive Search, SaaS, Sourcing, Recruiting, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Cloud Computing, Management, Talent Management, Search, Product Management, Leadership, Talent Acquisition