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Scott Anthony

Managing Director
Innosight Asia Pacific

Based in the firm's Singapore offices, Scott leads Innosight's Asian operations and venture-capital investing activities (Innosight Ventures).

Scott has written extensively about innovation. He is the author of the book The Little Black Book of Innovation. He is the coauthorof the Harvard Business Review article "How P&G Tripled Its Innovation Success Rate." He co-authored Seeing What's Next (2004) with Harvard Business School Professor and Innosight founder Clayton Christensen and was the lead author of The Innovator's Guide to Growth and author of The Silver Lining. He has written articles for publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, BusinessWeek, Forbes, Sloan Management Review, Advertising Age, Marketing Management and Chief Executive, and serves as a judge in The Wall Street Journal's Innovation Awards. He has a regular column at Harvard Business Online.

Prior to joining Innosight, Scott was a senior researcher with Clayton Christensen, managing a group that worked to further Christensen's research on innovation.

Scott is a sought-after strategic advisor who has worked closely with senior leaders in companies such as Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft, General Electric, LG, Credit Suisse, and Cisco Systems on topics of growth and innovation. He joined the Board of Directors of Media General in 2009. Scott chairs the investment committee for IDEAS Ventures, a SGD 10 million fund Innosight runs in conjunction with the Singapore government, and has served as an active Board member for two companies incubated by Innosight.

Scott is a featured speaker on topics of growth and innovation. He has run more than 100 training workshops, and in 2008-2009 served on the faculty of the Leadership, Innovation and Growth program at General Electric Crotonville. He has appeared on Good Morning America, CNBC, and FOX Business.

Scott received a BA in economics summa cum laude from Dartmouth College and an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar. Previously he worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Co., a strategic planner for Aspen Technology, and a product manager for WorldSpace Corporation. While at McKinsey, he co-authored a publicly released report on the United Kingdom's economic prospects.