Bio

Mr. Collier has been a venture capital and private equity manager since 1991, most recently as Managing Director of Triton Ventures, an Austin-based technology venture capital firm. He has advised private and publicly-traded companies on matters of capital formation and strategy and has led corporate development activities for several companies including Vignette Software and Hearst Corporation. Prior to Triton he served as Vice President of Capital Southwest Corporation, a publicly-traded venture capital and private equity firm with assets under management of over $500M. Mr. Collier has had board responsibility for 14 venture backed companies as well as the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Central Texas, the Austin Technology Council, Texas Business Hall of Fame and Slow Money Texas. He has been a guest speaker and panelist for numerous forums on venture capital, a guest lecturer at SMU’s Cox School of Business and the McCombs School of Business at UT Austin, and chaired judging for the Dell Social Innovation Competition. Scott began his career as a design engineer and manager with Northrop Grumman.