AI and cloud transformation
Moving emerging technology beyond experimentation into governed capabilities that improve how the business operates.
About Scott
Technology leadership for a world moving at machine speed.
Scott Shultz is a chief technology officer, operator, and author who helps organizations turn complexity into clarity—and technology into measurable business value.
Leadership perspective
Move with purpose. Scale with confidence.
For more than 30 years, Scott has led through pivotal shifts in enterprise technology—from infrastructure and digital modernization to cloud platforms and AI-enabled operating models.
His work sits where strategy meets execution. He brings executive teams, product leaders, engineers, and operators around a shared definition of value, a practical decision framework, and an operating rhythm built to deliver.
- 30+
- years in technology leadership
- 10–200+
- people in technology organizations led
- 2
- books on performance and velocity
- CTO
- Activate Games
What Scott brings
Executive judgment with operator-level fluency.
Practical leadership across the strategy, systems, and people required to make transformation real.
Scalable technology
Connecting architecture, infrastructure, reliability, security, and investment decisions to the outcomes that matter most.
High-performing teams
Building clarity, accountability, and operating discipline across technology organizations ranging from 10 to more than 200 people.
Operating principles
The discipline behind responsible velocity.
Begin with the outcome
Technology strategy earns its place when it creates measurable value for customers, teams, and the business.
Govern for movement
Good governance creates the confidence to move faster by making authority, risk, and accountability explicit.
Keep humans accountable
AI can extend judgment and capacity, but consequential decisions still require clear human ownership.
Build for durability
Velocity matters most when the systems, teams, and decisions behind it can withstand change.
Selected experience
Leadership across growth, transformation, and scale.
A selected chronology of executive technology roles.
Chief Technology Officer
Activate Games
Leading technology strategy at the intersection of physical play, digital experience, and scalable operations.
Senior Vice President, Infrastructure & TechOps
Exeter Finance
Executive leadership across infrastructure and technology operations in a complex financial-services environment.
Vice President, Technology Innovation
Topgolf
Technology innovation and transformation leadership supporting a rapidly evolving entertainment business.
Vice President, Information Technology
Main Event Entertainment
Technology leadership for a multi-location entertainment organization during a period of growth and change.
Selected leadership outcomes
Experience backed by operating results.
Examples from Scott’s work at Topgolf, documented in public career updates and partner case studies.
19 → 100+ venues
Technology supporting international growth
At Topgolf, Scott helped support expansion from 19 to 100+ venues through technology infrastructure, digital media, delivery, and support, alongside entry into new international markets.
Earlier Topgolf career update$125,000 annually
Lower cost. Greater capability.
In 2016, Scott led consolidation of Microsoft purchasing into an Enterprise Agreement, delivering $125,000 in annual savings while expanding available capacity and solutions.
2016 project in Scott’s public profileConsistent venue operations
Make scale easier for the people operating it
At Topgolf, Scott helped standardize the audiovisual control experience so trained employees could move between venues and operate the same controls without retraining.
SAVI’s Topgolf case studyThe next conversation
Lead with intent.
Build for velocity.
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