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“John Scott, PhD Astrophysicist and Serial Entrepreneur: Decoding patterns for NASA, the CIA, and Wall Street to build fortunes.”
Dr. John Scott is the rare scientist-entrepreneur who turned astrophysics-level pattern recognition into a scalable, fortune-building engine. As the Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder of Innventure since 2015, John leverages his proprietary "DownSelect" method, a system he developed over two decades as CEO of XLTG, to vet disruptive technologies from top multinational corporations and spin them into high-value companies.
Before building and exiting over a dozen tech startups, John was an academic scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and universities like Maryland, UNC, and Arizona. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics and Astrophysics, has published 60+ academic papers, advised six national governments, and worked with the CIA.
John brings raw, battlefield-tested stories about the intersection of deep science, pattern recognition, and big business.
Dr. John Scott co-founded Innventure after a distinguished career in astrophysics and two successful company-building experiences. He holds PhDs in Physics and Astrophysics and has been developing the Innventure model since 1993. He currently serves as a Member of Innventure’s Executive Committee and Chief Strategy Officer.
Dr. John Scott, Member of the Executive Committee, Chief Strategy Officer, and Co-founder of Innventure, an industrial growth conglomerate that delivers early-stage growth with late-stage risk characteristics joins the Green Business Podcast.
