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Scott Kessler is a Senior Director with Standard & Poor’s, heading up information technology sector equity research efforts and covering individual stocks. Since mid-2004, Scott has directed technology sector strategy and recommendations on over 250 stocks. From March 2000, he has personally covered the Internet Software & Services and Internet Retail sub-industries, including bellwethers eBay, Google, IAC/InterActiveCorp, and Yahoo. He also authors the bi-annual industry survey entitled, “Computers: Consumer Services & the Internet.”
Scott was recognized by The Wall Street Journal in its Best on the Street 2003 Analysts Survey as the top analyst covering General Industrial Services for his work on data-processing technology stocks. He is regularly relied upon as an expert by media including Barron’s, Bloomberg Radio and TV, CNBC, CNN, The Financial Times, Investor’s Business Daily, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, as well as numerous local U.S. periodicals and international outlets.
Prior to becoming an equity analyst, Scott worked as a legislative fellow to the Vice Chairman of House Telecommunications & Finance subcommittee, handling issues related to technology and telecommunications. Thereafter, he worked for a law firm in Washington, D.C. as a telecommunications attorney, representing clients including SBC Communications (which acquired and is now called AT&T), Time Warner and The Walt Disney Company.
Scott graduated from Brandeis University in 1992 and received a law degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1995. |
