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Scott Grizzle's Professional Experience
S. Scott Grizzle is a strategic partnerships and enterprise platform executive with 25+ years building global ecosystems and modernizing enterprise collaboration. Most recently Head of Unified Communications & AI Platforms in IBM's CIO Office, he led UC and AI strategy for 300,000 employees on a $100M budget — consolidating Webex and BlueJeans into Microsoft Teams for $30M+ in annual savings and serving as IBM's "Client Zero" for Microsoft Copilot. Earlier, at IBM Watson Media, he scaled platform revenue from $10M to $50M, drove 10x partner growth through alliances with Samsung, Sony, and AT&T, and secured a five-year AI contract with the U.S. Navy. He holds an MA in Management & Organizational Leadership from National University and is an iNARTE Telecommunications Master Engineer.
OCT 2022 - DEC 2025
Head of Unified Communications– CIO Office
Owned global UC and AI platform strategy for 300,000+ employees on a $100M budget. Consolidated Webex and BlueJeans into Microsoft Teams in seven months for $30M+ in annual savings, served as IBM's "Client Zero" for Microsoft Copilot, and cut incident resolution time 40% while holding 98% uptime.
AUG 2019 - OCT 2022
Director of Strategic Partnerships & Technical Sales — IBM Watson Media
Rebuilt and scaled IBM's global enterprise-video partner function — growing platform revenue from $10M to $50M with 10x partner growth, co-developing AI solutions with Samsung, AT&T, and Sony, and securing a five-year AI contract with the U.S. Navy.
Delivered AI and enterprise video solutions across defense, federal, and judicial agencies — including the U.S. Navy, NASA, U.S. Army, DHS, CDC, FBI, DOJ, and multiple U.S. Courts of Appeals and state courts (enabling remote proceedings during COVID).
May 2014 - AUG 2019
Sales Engineering Manager — IBM Watson Media (Ustream)
Recruited to stabilize Ustream ahead of its IBM acquisition; grew the global sales engineering team from 2 to 15 and built the technical foundation for $30M+ in annual platform revenue. Led special projects with Samsung, Sony, and AT&T FirstNet.
Delivered AI and enterprise video solutions across defense, federal, and judicial agencies — including the U.S. Navy, NASA, U.S. Army, DHS, CDC, FBI, DOJ, and multiple U.S. Courts of Appeals and state courts (enabling remote proceedings during COVID)
JAN 2011 - MAY 2014
VP, Strategic Partnerships & Product Development
Built and led a new product division (Multistreamer, Gearbox, Proxicaster, Delay Server), growing company revenue from $12M to $30M with ~$20M in new sales. Owned product roadmap plus partnerships and channels (RealNetworks, Roku, Harmonic), and became an industry leader in adaptive-bitrate (ABR) encoding.
SEPTEMBER 2006 - DEC 2010
Director Video Products / Business Development & Technical Sales -- LSI / Tarari
Led sales engineering, partnerships, and channels for the Tarari Encoding Accelerator (pre-GPU video encoding). Delivered a $10M Netflix engagement and co-developed the accelerator behind Netflix's first streaming platform, drove a ~$350M Cisco engagement, and won Microsoft's 2006 OEM Gold Partner of the Year.
FEB 2001 - NOV 2006
Founder & President — Executive Producer -- River Communications
Founded and led an early live-streaming production and consulting company — producing and directing live and on-demand events and building multi-codec streaming and CDN workflows (Akamai) for clients including the American Bar Association and Discovery.
Awards & Recognition
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IBM 100% Club & President's Club
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Microsoft Gold Partner of the Year, 2006–2010 (Tarari / LSI)
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Emmy Nominations (3, Local) — XETV Fox 6
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Annie Award — CSU Chico
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State of California Letter of Appreciation
