April 6, 2016

Scott is a Managing Director at Middleland Capital where he is responsible for portfolio management and evaluating investment opportunities in agriculture and biotechnology. Prior to Middleland, Scott was a Managing Director at Third Security, LLC, where he was responsible for assessing the commercial viability and technical merit of potential investments in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors. He also worked with many portfolio companies of Third Security’s managed investment funds providing business intelligence and operational support, and served on the Board of Directors of Synchrony Inc. (acquired by Dresser-Rand Corp.). In addition to portfolio management, he took on interim operating roles within several portfolio companies. Prior to Third Security, he was a founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Pathologics, LLC, a point of care diagnostics company located in Rochester, NY. Scott received his Ph.D. in Bioorganic Chemistry and an M.S. in Biophysics from the University of Rochester and a B.S. in Biochemistry from the State University of New York at Albany.