Scott Sutherland
Chief Operating Officer at Toposware
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Executive Director
2024 - Current
Executive advisory for early-stage deep-tech startup teams and for driving emerging tech into future-focused entities. Partnering with deeply technical founding teams, I focus on providing fundraising, positioning, GTM and zero to one function advisory to maximize leverage for hypergrowth, horizontal tech startups. Partnering with established entities, I advise on AI and emerging tech opportunities to reset industry growth curves. Projects and teams include: - Quantum Government and Commercial GTM - Enterprise AI GTM - web3 Advisory Services - AI Products and Automation - B2C Unified Ops Platform/Marketplace - B2C E-commerce - Product-Market Fit Analytics Tooling - Exquisite Performance Distributed Compute Platform
Strategic Advisor
2025
Chief Operating Officer
2022 - 2024
Responsible for all growth aspects of VC-backed startup including fundraising, operational establishment (systems, legal, finance/tax, IP, people, marketing), product/ecosystem go-to-market, and ultimate acquisition by Polygon Labs. Toposware is developing Topos, a trustless and secure multi-chain ecosystem of interoperable blockchains that leverages zero-knowledge proofs and reliable broadcast to offer seamless interchain communication without relying on trust in validators, nor consensus. Toposware’s research-led approach to interoperability removes the risks associated to cross-chain communication by providing cryptographic security as opposed to economic security. The Topos protocol has been designed and built in collaboration with leading research institutes such as the CEA and Inria, leading to multiple publications. Trust less. Connect more. Acquired by Polygon Labs - June 2024.
Toposware develops a fully interoperable blockchain ecosystem powered by zero-knowledge proofs.
Raised $14,075,489.00 from K2 Access Fund, Triatomic Capital, Evolution Equity Partners, Sandeep Nailwal and Triatomic Capital.
Head of Digital Strategy
2016 - 2022
Responsible for GTM/BD strategy, client product strategy and program/product execution for management consulting and engineering firm - grew team (internal/external) from 4 to 80. Plecosystems is a boutique consulting and digital transformation partner for large corporates and private equity firms with a mandate of making innovation accessible. Thesis #1: Digital transformation is most significant opportunity for small/mid cap PE PortCos. Thesis #2: Massive opportunity for Agile, UX-led product development and management consultancy within Enterprise.
Plecosystems offers digital execution, staff augmentation, and IT consulting services.
Chief Operating Officer
2016 - 2019
Founding product owner, team/growth operations for medical compliance startup from initial conception, seed and through successful Series A funding, and product market fit. MedScale+ is a compliance management software tool managing medical compliance and “last-mile” pharmaceutical tracking for remote industries. PE-backed startup built to radically transform portfolio company business/revenue model from product-margin business to compliance/insurance SaaS. Acquired 2024.
Business Development Manager
2015 - 2016
Digital Health and Emerging Technologies Advocate Weka Solutions provides a variety of services for innovation dedicated to helping the Life Sciences maximize the value of information. o Intelligent vaccine refrigerator o Online retail anti-counterfeiting platform o Social analytics tool for pharmaceutical efficacy tracking
Director
2013 - 2015
Management Consultant/ Managing Director
2011 - 2015