Scott Klososky
Scott Klososky turns the phrase, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going," on its head. When a business of his starts to take off, he does, too. A former CEO of three successful startup companies, Scott Klososky is passionate about shaking up the daily grind, rebuilding a business from the ground-up, and when that becomes profitable, seeking the next opportunity. His ...
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Scott Klososky turns the phrase, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going," on its head. When a business of his starts to take off, he does, too. A former CEO of three successful startup companies, Scott Klososky is passionate about shaking up the daily grind, rebuilding a business from the ground-up, and when that becomes profitable, seeking the next opportunity. His presentations are praised for delivering fresh observations, ideas, and practical steps that organizations can use to restructure teams, create strategy that works, and apply technology in influential ways. His keynotes are riveting and his workshops instill cutting edge concepts that can be applied to achieve instant results.
An interactive speaker. Scott Klososky's panache translates into common language the next wave of technologies, and imparts their relevance and impact on our society, organizations, and individual lives. Scott Klososky customizes his speeches to the unique needs of his audiences. His engagements include dazzling interactive multimedia programs that combine the latest in technology with groundbreaking video and music. His innovation inspires audiences to take the ownership and responsibility for stepping out of their comfort zone and capitalizing on the future.
Scott Klososky's expertise in leadership and his creative approach to business direction, inspired Critical Technologoes to hire him as a turnaround CEO, where they completely rebuilt the underlying products and brought the company to stability. Prior to working with Critical Technologies, Scott Klososky served as vice president of production for iBeam Broadcasting Corporation. Under his leadership iBeam produced $40 million of business to become the industry's leading streaming communications solutions provider. He then founded webcasts.com, the premier Internet broadcaster for interactive webcasts. His online clients included PGA and WWF, and corporations like Lotus, Accenture, and Bristol Meyer Squibb. Scott Klososky's vision and leadership positioned webcasts.com to lead with innovations that include the first music CD to launch to the Internet, the first interactive CD-ROM to be used to lobby Congress, and the first CD-ROM/Web-based product designed to generate donations for a non-profit organization. The company's clients included IBM, Compaq, AOL, Hewlet-Packard, and BMG Music, among others.
A protégé of former President Richard M. Nixon's chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, Klososky collaborated with him on The Haldeman Diaries, a New York Times bestseller. Klososky had the foresight to work with Sony Entertainment and create the diaries into a book/CD-ROM. Haldeman passed away before the products were released, so Scott Klososky represented Haldeman as the national book tour spokesperson. In 1988, at the age of 26, Scott Klososky founded one of the first profitable Soviet/American joint ventures, ParaGraph, Inc., with Russian partners including Garry Kasparov, then world chess champion. ParaGraph designed the original handwritten text-recognition software for the Apple Newton and was later sold to Silicon Graphics in 1997. The ParaGraph software standard is used in personal digital assistants across the consumer population.
Scott Klososky is constantly on the hunt for the next big thing. Whether this is in the tech field, on the Web, or around the bottom line, what becomes immediately evident when you're in his presence is that, whatever the next big thing is, it's probably him.
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