David Meerman Scott

David is a marketing strategist, entrepreneur, investor and advisor to emerging companies, and bestselling author of 12 books, including "Fanocracy" and "The New Rules of Marketing & PR." In his work with Stage 2 Capital, he advises some of the most promising new businesses in the world - companies that are transforming their industries by delivering disruptive products and services. He has also been an advisor to HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS), since 2007 when the company had a handful of customers and fewer than 10 employees. At HubSpot, he helped the team with rapid sales and marketing strategies that have grown the company to more than 100,000 customers in 120 countries and $880+ million in revenue in 2020. He has contributed to successful exits of companies as a member of the board of directors of NewsWatch KK (sale to Yahoo Japan) and Kadient (sale to Sant) and served on the board of advisors of Eloqua (IPO followed by a sale to Oracle), GrabCAD (sale to Stratasys) and YayPay (sale to Quadient).