Scott Pollack

ROGUE SCOTT Executive Advisory

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Shanghai
China

  • Coaching Region(s)

    Asia

  • Industries of Expertise

    Coaching/Business Consulting

About

Throughout his 25+ year highly rewarding career, Scott has demonstrated a passion for growing businesses, from start-ups to public companies, having served on leadership teams in capacity of Founder, Managing Director, Executive Vice President, Head of Strategy, VP of Sales and Director of Business Development, all in high-growth companies (including 2 IPOs). At this point he is fulfilling his desire to have meaningful impact on the success of entrepreneurial CEOs through coaching, serving on boards (including corporates, start-ups and not-for-profits), as well as mentoring.

A certified Gazelles business coach, Scott advises entrepreneurial chief executives and leadership teams on successfully scaling their businesses leveraging proven disciplines, frameworks and tools; serves on multiple advisory boards; is a founding board member of Kehilat Shanghai; and is a volunteer mentor in the Entrepreneur Organization (EO) and Chinaccelerator.

Professional Highlights

Deep experience in strategy, business development, sales, marketing, product and consulting primarily in the Internet, digital media and technology space.
Successful at developing businesses in the United States and Asia (including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Singapore), doing business in Asia since 1999 and living in China since 2005. Holder of a BA in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and both an MBA in finance and a JD from UCLA.

Personal Highlights

Fully conversational in Mandarin Chinese, Scott lives in Shanghai with his wife and young daughter.

“Scott joined our team in the capacity of Business Advisor earlier this year. He dug straight into the heart of the organization from the very first workshop and helped us identify company wide issues that had become roadblocks or otherwise needed to be solved in order for our company to realize its full potential.

As a startup that had experienced rapid growth, our communication and alignment systems had not scaled to match our size and complexity, and Scott gave us the tools and helped impart the mindset needed to take things to the next level. Our senior management now meets with Scott on a monthly basis, and he has proactively identified trouble-spots and helped make sure everyone is held accountable—even the CEO!

I would recommend Scott’s coaching to any entrepreneur who is looking to take his/her company to the next level and wants insightful feedback and tools to implement this growth. You will see immediate impact from your first meeting and beyond.”

Thomas Lapham
CEO | Asia Clean Capital

“Scott has been working with our China team as facilitator and coach for a little more than a year now. In that time he has sharpened our focus on the priorities, process and structure to grow our startup in the local market. A brutal honesty and calling us out when we don’t deliver on our promises has been a refreshing difference to my experiences with consultants and advisers. He doesn’t tell us what we want to hear, but rather what we need to hear. With pleasure I recommend Scott to you and your organization.”

Anthony Gollan
VP & GM | China at ODL

“Scott is integral to BitMEX’s journey from a startup into a well functioning medium sized company. The coaching and advice that Scott provides the executive committee is paying dividends in the way in which we formulate our business strategy and execute it.”

Arthur Hayes
Co-Founder and CEO | BitMEX

“Working with Scott has been a great experience. Scott has had a huge impact on our “Scaling Up” journey by getting us more organized with our strategic planning and helping us bring the entire company on the same page. This has had a great positive impact on engagement and results. Scott has an amazing ability to seamlessly shift between strategic discussions and nuts and bolts operational issues, which combined with his broad cross-functional knowledge enables me to take almost any business issue to him.”

Ash Monga
Founder & CEO | IMEX Sourcing Services

“Scott has been working with us as a facilitator, adviser and business coach. Scott has provided structured strategy days and check in sessions to help us plan, as well giving valuable insights from his years of business experience. Scott quickly had a impact on the business, I’d happily recommend Scott to anyone considering executive, or leadership team coaching.”

Ben Weldon
Founder and CEO | Thread Design

“Working with Scott has been a pleasure for me. Intellectually speaking – he is in the top percentile – rare to find in any profession. His broad skill set and experiences allow for him to provide extremely relevant tactical feedback to any business while positively contributing to the larger strategic vision and plan. Happy to speak with anyone considering working with him – Highly Recommended.”

Colin Bogar
Founder and CEO | Property Passbook
  • Coaching Region(s)

    Asia

  • Industries of Expertise

    Coaching/Business Consulting

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