Scott Cleland

As the president of Precursor LLC, a consulting firm in McLean, Virginia, Scott Cleland provides his expertise in areas such as capital markets, public policy, and industry change. A proven expert on modern technological innovations and their interactions with public policy, he was the first analyst to foresee legislation replacing telecom monopoly law and to predict how that would affect the Baby Bells and the radio industry. He also predicted the burst of the dot-com market bubble, WorldCom's bankruptcy, and monopolistic strategies at Google. Scott Cleland has spotlighted conflicts of interest on Wall Street and unethical behavior at major technology firms, and he organized industry leaders to expose and debunk major issues in their fields.