Stephen Scott

Starling Trust Sciences: Founder & CEO, USA

Stephen is Founder & CEO at Starling Trust Sciences, a US-based technology company. Starling operates at the nexus of big data, network science, and the behavioral sciences to produce what Stephen calls "predictive behavioral analytics."

Stephen has spent much of his career in corporate intelligence and risk management. His clients have included:  corporate boards and officers; governance, risk compliance professionals; internal and external legal counsel; private equity firms, hedge funds, and other investors; as well as government officials.

Such clientele has called on Stephen for critical business intelligence and risk analysis when they were: looking to enter new markets, ventures, or commercial relationships; conducting pre-investment due diligence or testing an investment thesis; carrying out discrete investigations into suspected fraud or corruption; pursuing redress through, litigation, arbitration, or government inquiry; and when seeking to advance their interests before government and regulatory agencies.

Earlier in his career, Stephen served as the US Senate’s Chief International Investigator during a Congressional inquiry into allegations that foreign espionage agents had sought to funnel illegal monies into the 1996 presidential election to gain access to intelligence.

Given this professional history, Stephen has seen how most operational business risks flow from the behavior of people within an enterprise.  In his view, the internal "trust Dynamics" among those people provides the greatest advance-indicator of potential trouble. By mapping out those trust dynamics, Starling generates actionable insights into risks before they become manifest. Through Starling, Stephen aims to build the “trust infrastructure” of the 21st century.

Stephen has studied at Cornell University, the University of York, the London School of Economics, the Columbia Graduate School of Business and the London Business School. He has led client matters in over 50 countries and he has lived and worked in New York, Washington, London, Frankfurt, Madrid, and Shanghai. Stephen lives in Orlando Florida, with his wife and young daughter, and operates Starling from Boston and San Francisco.