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Scott Schrand

@scottschrand

COO building AI-native operations infrastructure that turns organizational knowledge into a compounding intelligence system.

United States
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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to help build AI-native operational infrastructure that captures organizational intelligence, earns human trust, and compounds learning—so teams stop losing critical knowledge and start scaling with clarity.

I’ve built my career around one repeated operational truth: organizational intelligence often lives in people’s heads and tribal knowledge—until it walks out the door. As a COO, I reached the ceiling of what human cognitive bandwidth can hold, and that conviction shaped everything I do next.

Now I help companies design and build an “organizational mind” as living infrastructure—not a chatbot or another siloed SaaS feature. I focus on the capture layers, knowledge graphs, reasoning systems, and the human trust frameworks that make these systems actually get adopted and keep compounding.

In my current fractional COO work, I build AI-powered operations foundations for early-stage healthcare and AI startups, designing operations “AI-native from day one.” I’ve consolidated HR, finance, legal, and compliance into unified knowledge layers, deployed AI agent workflows for distributed hiring and onboarding, and created enterprise MSA contract workflows that feed insight forward deal after deal.

Earlier as COO at Schola, I helped scale through key growth phases—partnering to raise $15M in Series A, driving 20x revenue growth, and expanding from the original founders into a fully remote team across 5 countries. I also bring earlier experience spanning venture capital due diligence, business development and operations leadership, and building clearer financial reporting alongside executives.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Fractional COO logoFC
Current

Fractional COO

Jun 2024 - Present (2 years 1 month)

Building operational foundations for early-stage healthcare and AI startups — and increasingly focused on what happens when you design operations to be AI-native from day one rather than bolting intelligence on after the fact.

Highlights:

- Built AI-powered operations frameworks that consolidated HR, finance, legal, and compliance into a unified system — replacing the need for a full in-house te

Schola logoSC

Chief Operating Officer

Mar 2019 - Jun 2024 (5 years 3 months)

Schola is the leading student recruitment platform for PreK–12 schools, helping families find the right-fit education while enabling schools to grow enrollment.

I helped scale Schola through its most critical growth phases — raising $15M in funding through Series A, driving 20x revenue growth, and expanding from the original 3 founders into a fully remote team spanning 5 countries. My role blende

Arizona Founders Fund logoAF

Venture Capital Analyst

Jan 2019 - Jun 2019 (5 months)

The Arizona Founders Fund has a mission to close that gap, helping our community’s pioneers of innovation build lasting enterprises, from day one. As an analyst for AFF, I was tasked with screening potential deals, running due diligence on prospective deals, and presenting my findings to our investment committee to consider investments.

Live Well Wellness Center logoLC

Director of Business Development and Operations

May 2017 - May 2019 (2 years)

Live Well Wellness Center is a brand new concept for naturopathic medicine inside of a traditional family practice environment. The concept provides patients a truly unique experience to both treat and optimize their health all in one place. Doctors are empowered to bridge the gap between traditional and naturopathic medicine to provide our patients with the best possible treatment plan for thei

LC

Director Business Development & Ops

Live Well Wellness Center

May 2017 - May 2019 (2 years)

Built company operations for a naturopathic medicine concept and identified/secured new revenue channels. Led doctors and operational staff toward lean, customer-obsessed goals while improving referrals, patient acquisition strategies, services, and vendor margin performance.

Trick Dog Technology logoTT

Account Executive

Dec 2012 - May 2017 (4 years 5 months)

As a sale representative at MCW I have been tasked in developing customer relationships with small business owners, realtors and individuals nationwide. I regularly maintained full time sales quota as a part timer and responsible for 15% of the company’s overall revenue while maintaining a 70 average NPS.

Through my time working at MCW I have also held the responsibility of team lead. During th

Arizona Community Foundation logoAF

Investment and Information System Analyst

Jul 2016 - Sep 2016 (2 months)

As an intern I refined both my data analytical skills as well as my knowledge of financial institution and investments.

Throughout the summer internship I worked with the CIO and CFO to develop and implement new reporting solutions to provide a more transparent view of ACF's assets, at the time worth over 750M.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

AU

Arizona State University

Bachelor of Science (BS), Finance

ME

MIT Professional Education

AU

Arizona State University

Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Information Systems

ME

MIT Professional Education

Chief Operating Officer Executive Program

2023 - 2024

MT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT xPRO’s Chief Operating Officer Program, Business Administration and Management

2023 - 2024

Massachusetts Institute of Technology logoMT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Chief Operating Officer Program, Business Administration and Management

2023 - 2024

Completed MIT xPRO’s Chief Operating Officer Program in Business Administration and Management.

Arizona State University logoAU

Arizona State University

Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems

Earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems from Arizona State University.

Arizona State University logoAU

Arizona State University

Bachelor of Science, Finance

Earned a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Arizona State University.

Tech stack

Software and tools used professionally

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