Scott Cleland
Founder & President, Precursor® LLC
Chairman, Netcompetition.org

Scott Cleland is one of nation's foremost techcom analysts and experts at the nexus of: capital markets, public policy and techcom industry change. He is widely-respected in industry, government, media and capital markets as a forward thinker, free market proponent, and leading authority on the future of communications. Precursor LLC is an industry research and consulting firm, specializing in the techcom sector, whose mission is to help companies anticipate change for competitive advantage. He previously founded The Precursor Group Inc., which Institutional Investor magazine ranked as the #1 "Best Independent" research firm in communications for two years in a row. He is also Chairman of Netcompetition.org, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Precursor LLC and an e-forum on Net Neutrality funded by broadband telecom, cable, and wireless companies.

Cleland has a high-profile track record of foreseeing big change before others. He coined the term "techcom" to define how information technology drives the communications future and to best name the new sector that converging communications technologies are creating. Fortune profiled Cleland as the first to call "WorldCom: Dead Model Walking" and to predict its bankruptcy. Then WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers tried to discredit Cleland's prescient and hard-hitting research on WorldCom by deriding him the "idiot Washington analyst." Cleland has testified before seven different Congressional subcommittees on a variety of forward-looking topics and was the first congressional expert witness asked to testify on what went wrong with Enron.

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