Daryl Scott
President and CEO
Attaain Inc.

Attaain Inc. was founded by CEO Daryl Scott, who has over twenty-five years of experience in high technology businesses, including over eleven years leading the growth of several start-up companies in California’s Silicon Valley. He has extensive experience in a wide range of technologies including business information systems, enterprise and retail application software, mobile and wireless computing, and Internet, web and database systems.

Mr. Scott also is currently, or has previously, served on the Board of Directors of a number of successful high technology companies including Strategic Mapping, Inc., and CASIO Soft Inc., as well as on the Advisory Boards of Comprehensive Computer Solutions (CCS-Inc), VT KnowledgeWorks and the industry technology council NCTC (NewVa Corridor Technology Council).

As an entrepreneur, he has previously founded a number of successful technology companies. Most recently, he was President & CEO of Scott Technology Group, a high-tech management consulting firm. He also served as President & Partner of Milestone Equity Partners SW Virginia, where he was responsible for identifying, launching and providing ongoing coaching to premier early-stage technology companies.

Prior to this, Mr. Scott was President and CEO of CASIO Soft, Inc., a San Jose, California field force automation and mobile data collection spin-off company from CASIO Computer Corporation that raised $6M in equity financing. Leading up to the spin-out of CASIO Soft, Mr. Scott was Director of the Mobile Systems Group at CASIO’s U.S. Research and Development Center, where he was responsible for both internal development and external licensing of technologies used in a variety of mobile computing systems and products, and for technology transfers to and from the Company’s R&D facilities in Japan.

Previously, Mr. Scott was founder and President of Avail Technology, Inc., a developer and marketer of software for the mobile computing market. He also founded and served as President of Select Micro Systems, Inc., specializing in desktop business and marketing applications, which was later acquired by Strategic Mapping, Inc. Post acquisition, Mr. Scott then went on to serve as Executive Vice President and a member of the Board of Directors at Strategic Mapping, Inc., a Geographic Information Systems and data analysis firm, and participated in raising over $20M in venture capital to fund the Company’s growth prior to its ultimate acquisition by Claritas/VNU.

Mr. Scott’s career also includes managing the development of a wide range of business software and market intelligence systems used in marketing, media planning and sales forecasting for several of the largest advertising agencies in New York City including Young & Rubicam, J Walter Thompson and Foote, Cone & Belding. He served as Corporate Vice President of Media Research at Foote, Cone & Belding and developed many of the agency’s in-house marketing/media analysis and forecasting systems.

He has written articles for, been interviewed by, or featured in, numerous marketing, business and technical publications including Madison Avenue Magazine, Television/Radio Age and Marketing & Media Decisions, as well as in computer publications such as Nibble, Personal Computing and MacWorld magazine. In addition, he has been a featured speaker on business technology systems at numerous industry conferences.

Mr. Scott holds a BA in Marketing from the University of South Florida, and an MBA from Baruch College in New York City.

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