Role: Public relations, including pitching stories, drafting and submitting award applications, and booking speaking engagements.

Helping hand: Scott pitches reporters and editors on behalf of Unorthodox Ventures’ portfolio companies, placing articles in major publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Wired. Scott has also helped portfolio companies win a collective 200+ awards, everything from TIME’s Best Inventions and Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas to the SXSW Innovation Awards and the German Design Council’s ICONIC Awards. He has also booked speaking engagements at events including SXSW, TechCrunch Disrupt, Inc. 5000 and the Fast Company Innovation Festival.

Background: Journalism and communications.