Scot Chisholm

Scot Chisholm (born June 15, 1981) is an American social entrepreneur who is the co-founder and CEO of Classy, a San Diego based social enterprise platform which creates fundraising tools for non-profits. Chisholm co-founded the company in 2006 with Pat Walsh.

Scot Chisholm
Born(1981-06-15)June 15, 1981
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUMass Amherst
University of Manchester
Known forCEO & Co-Founder at Classy

Early life

Chisholm graduated from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2004 with a degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research with a Mechanical Engineering concentration.[1][2]

Career

He started his career as a consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he eventually served as a senior consultant on the Economic and Business Analysis Team. He left Booz Allen in 2007.[3]

In 2006, Chisholm co-founded Classy, which originally started as a charity fundraising events and evolved into a fundraising platform. Chisholm and his team launched an enhanced version of the Classy platform in January 2011 and since then, Classy has helped millions of people across 300,000 individual campaigns fund over 3,000 organizations.[4] Collectively, organizations have raised over $500 million on Classy’s platform. Classy itself has raised $53 million from investors that include Bullpen Capital, JMI Equity, Mithril, and Salesforce Ventures.[5]

Chisholm also served as Board Director from 2011 to 2015 at Team Rubicon, which connects skilled military veterans with medical professionals to form teams that respond better to disaster situations.[6][7]

In addition, he also is involved in two soccer-oriented organizations. Since 2015, he has served as Board Director and Founding Investor of San Francisco City Football Club, one of the first social enterprise-based, semi-professional soccer clubs in the United States.[8] He also has been a National Advisory Board Member since early 2017 at Street Soccer USA, an organization that uses sports to improve health, education, and employment outcomes for disadvantaged Americans.[9]

Scot has won awards for his work and was named by Businessweek in 2011 as one of the top 5 most promising social entrepreneurs in America as well as one of Glassdoor’s Highest Rated CEOs of 2017 as rated by employees.[10][11]

References
  1. "Scot Chisholm: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  2. "A CEO shares the best-kept secret about startups". Business Insider. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  3. "Raising Money for Nonprofits on Shoestring Budgets | College of Engineering | UMass Amherst". engineering.umass.edu. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  4. "Classy Raises $18M in Round Led by Peter Thiel's Mithril Capital | Xconomy". Xconomy. 1 July 2015. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  5. Grove, Jennifer Van (30 June 2015). "Classy raises $18M for charity crowdfunding". sandiegouniontribune.com. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  6. "Paul Martino, Serial Entrepreneur & VC @Bullpen Capital, investors in Marketo, Zynga, Desk.com, Udemy, etc. & Scot Chisholm, CEO of Classy & Angel Investor". Eventful. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  7. Magee, Christine. "Making Nonprofits SaaS-Savvy, Classy Raises $18 Million". TechCrunch. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  8. "Presenting Classy, Street Soccer USA, and Campaign Monitor, our 2015 jersey partners! | San Francisco City FC". sfcityfc.com. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  9. "Street Soccer USA | Our Boards". www.streetsoccerusa.org. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  10. Thorpe, Devin. "Classy CEO: Why Shouldn't Nonprofits Have World Class Tools?". Forbes. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  11. "Highest Rated CEOs at SMBs". Glassdoor. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
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