Scott Button
Scott is a Managing Director and heads the firm’s technology practice. He focuses on investments in engineering and physical sciences, software, energy technology and medical devices. Scott has over twelve years of venture capital experience and six years of operating experience. He created the Venture Igniter program, an entrepreneur-in-residence strategy designed to create technology start-ups out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Scott serves on the Boards of Directors for Soft Switching Technologies, NeuWave Medical and Silatronix and is an observer for Virent Energy Systems, Pattern Insight and Alfalight. He previously served on the Board of Directors for Virent Energy Systems and was an observer for Intersymbol Technologies (acquired by FNSR), NewMonics (acquired by Aonix) and Corona Optical Systems (acquired by EMKR).
Before entering the venture capital industry, Scott worked for McDonald’s Corporation as an operations manager and for Rockwell Automation as a field sales engineer in the automotive industry.
Scott serves on the advisory boards for the Madison Development Corporation and the UW-Madison Advanced Materials Industrial Consortium. He is an occasional guest lecturer for the UW-Madison Engineering and Business Schools and is a frequent judge for the school’s Technology Business Plan Competition and Schoofs Prize for Engineering Creativity.
Scott is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (BS–Mechanical Engineering), The University of Chicago (MBA) and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
