Scott Dorsey
Scott Dorsey is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of High Alpha, an Indianapolis-based venture studio that conceives, launches, scales, and invests in next-generation enterprise cloud companies. Since founding the firm in 2015, he has helped build and back a generation of B2B software companies. He also serves as Executive Chairman of Zylo and previously sat on the board of Pluralsight through its IPO and acquisition by Vista Equity Partners.
Before High Alpha, Scott co-founded ExactTarget and led it as Chairman and CEO from startup through its 2012 IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. In 2013, ExactTarget was acquired by Salesforce for $2.5 billion, after which Scott served as CEO of the Salesforce Marketing Cloud, leading a team of more than 3,000 worldwide. He holds a bachelor's degree in marketing from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business and an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
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