Kevin Scott
Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of AI at Microsoft
Microsoft's chief technology officer, who oversees its AI strategy and its partnership with OpenAI.
Biography
Kevin Scott is chief technology officer at Microsoft. He grew up in Gladys, Virginia, earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from Lynchburg College and a master's in computer science from Wake Forest University, and left a PhD program at the University of Virginia in 2003. He started his career at Google, holding search and ads engineering roles and earning a Google Founders' Award before leaving in 2007, then was vice president of engineering and operations at AdMob, which Google acquired in 2010.
He joined LinkedIn in 2011 as senior vice president of engineering and was credited with scaling its systems. In January 2017, soon after Microsoft acquired LinkedIn, CEO Satya Nadella named him Microsoft's chief technology officer. He founded Behind the Tech, a non-profit that profiles people in technology, wrote Reprogramming the American Dream (2020) about making AI serve everyone, advises startups, and is an angel investor. TIME's 2023 list of the 100 most influential people in AI lists him as CTO and executive vice president of AI at Microsoft.
Notable contributions
Named Microsoft's chief technology officer
Named CTO by Satya Nadella in January 2017 after Microsoft acquired LinkedIn, where he had been senior vice president of engineering.
Scaled LinkedIn's systems
As LinkedIn's senior vice president of engineering from 2011, was credited with scaling its computer systems; Business Insider called him the engineer who saved LinkedIn.
Wrote Reprogramming the American Dream
Co-authored the 2020 book Reprogramming the American Dream, about making AI serve everyone.
Career history
Search and ads engineer
