Speakers
Ken Moreano, Founder, President & CEO, Scott Data
Ken is President & CEO of Scott Data Center and Scott Managed Services, and Executive Director of Scott Technology Center, whose mission is to develop and facilitate the commercialization of emerging technologies while adding value to partnerships with industry, government and academia. Ken has led the efforts to develop the 20-acre campus into approximately 250,000 square feet of research, office, data center and incubator facilities.
As President of the 80,000 square foot Scott Data Center, Ken was responsible for its 2006 construction and meeting the requirements of the Department of Defense. In 2011, Ken oversaw the data center renovation with the addition of a 20-Megawatt central plant, and achieved the Uptime Institute Tier III certification in both design and construction.
In 2021, Ken spearheaded 60+ customer interviews, developing a catalogue of technical services to launch Scott Managed Services in 2022, which resulted in additional critical infrastructure projects including an 8,000 square foot highly classified space build-out within Scott Data. In February 2024, Ken led the launch of a Scott Data high density, high-capacity Artificial Intelligence (AI) GPU as a Service offering in partnership with World Wide Technology (WWT), NVIDIA, VAST data, Motivair, IP Infusion Apolo, and Prolego, among others.
Over 20+ years at Scott Technology, Ken has advised, operated, invested in and/or developed over 40 start-ups. In 2010, he founded, raised the capital and developed the model for the National Innovation Fund, LP – a venture investment fund focused on start-up and early-stage Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grantee companies. In 2014, he co-founded Aksarben Discovery Fund I, LP, a seed-stage fund predicated on the Evidence-Based ("Lean Start-up") approach, followed by Aksarben Discovery Capital Management, a seed-stage investment partnership.
Ken has participated in innovation summits at MIT, Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University. As an authorized agent for the Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation, Ken engages with a wide range of organizations from start-up companies to well established corporations.