E. Scott Crist

 

Mr. Crist is managing partner of Crist Ventures and a general partner at Texas Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm. He has an extensive background as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, having founded and profitable grown two technology companies to revenues of over $100 million each during the last decade.

Mr. Crist was formerly founder and CEO of Telscape International, an integrated communications company for emerging markets, and prior to that, was President and CEO for Matrix, a telecommunications company that Inc. Magazine ranked 7th on its list of the 500 fastest growing private companies in the U.S. in 1995. Earlier in his career, he was VP of Acquisitions for Trammell Crow Group, specializing in U.S. capital market transactions, and previously worked for IBM and Booz-Allen Hamilton. Mr. Crist has an MBA from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from NC State University.

Mr. Crist is a former Entrepreneur of the Year by CNN/ NASDAQ/ Ernst & Young. He also sits on the boards of several public and private companies. He is on the Alumni Advisory boards for the Kellogg Graduate School at Northwestern University and teaches venture capital and business plan development at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business.