Kevin Scott

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Kevin Scott is the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft.

Last updated Oct 6, 2026 by the ATDb Editorial Team

Role

Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

Company

Microsoft

Based

Redmond, Washington, United States

Boards

Connections

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Years in industry: 25 years

Bio

Kevin Scott is the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft. He began his career at Google, where he held multiple positions in search and ads engineering and earned a Google Founders' Award. He then served as VP of Engineering and Operations at AdMob, a mobile advertising startup that Google acquired in 2010 for $750 million. At AdMob, he built and led the technology team. He subsequently joined LinkedIn as Senior Vice President of Engineering, where he was credited with scaling the company's systems to handle accelerating demand following its 2011 IPO, earning him the description from Business Insider as "the engineer who saved LinkedIn." Source 1: derrick-app.com — Who is the CTO of Microsoft? Kevin Scott Source 2: wikipedia.org — Kevin Scott (computer scientist) Source 3: amazon.com — Kevin Scott: books, biography, latest update

Career

Executive Vice President and Chief Technology OfficerCurrent
Microsoft
Employee
Google · Until 2007
Senior Vice President of Engineering and Operations
LinkedIn

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Expertise & education

Expertise

Artificial Intelligence StrategyLarge-Scale Machine Learning InfrastructureMobile Advertising TechnologyCloud Computing (Azure)Engineering Leadership at ScaleAI Ethics and Responsible AIProgrammatic Advertising InfrastructureTechnology Partnerships and M&A

Education

B.S., Wake Forest University
M.S., Computer Science, University of Virginia

Recognition

Publications

Reprogramming the American Dream: From Rural America to Silicon Valley — Making AI Serve Us All (2020)

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