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Scott Gleeson Blue's Biography

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Scott Gleeson Blue's Auto-Biography

Scott Gleeson Blue delivers high-level strategy and exacting implementation for new and established brands in the consumer, technology, education and healthcare markets from Zer0 to 5ive's Philadelphia office.

Before joining Zer0 to 5ive, Scott's 15-year career was mainly spent with two agencies in three cities. Beginning in the Minneapolis office of New York-based Connors Communications, he moved from the company's education to consumer group in 1997 and transferred to the firm's San Francisco office. He helped open Connors' Los Angeles office in 2000 and assisted in facilitating its transition to San Francisco-based Allison & Partners in 2001. With both agencies, Scott conceived and guided corporate and product communications strategies for diverse endeavors in the consumer, education, non-profit and business-to-business arenas. Clients have included the likes of American Express, Biophan, Broderbund, Deloitte, The Disney Channel, Edmund's, Encyclopedia Britannica, GoTo.com (now Overture), Houghton Mifflin, Knowledge Adventure, The Learning Company, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, McMillan-McGraw Hill, NBC Television (w/Corday Productions), New.net, Nordstrom, Priceline, Onsale, The Orange County Philharmonic Society, Shaw Pittman, Simon & Schuster, Upper Deck, Walker Digital, Vivometrics and Xerox. In 1998, Scott was proud to have been named a Connors Communications "star," the company's annual award for outstanding individual achievement.

Scott is also a writer. In 2004, he collaborated with Tom Patterson, CEO, Command Information Inc., and partner emeritus, Deloitte, to write Mapping Security: The Corporate Security Sourcebook for Today's Global Economy. Published by Addison-Wesley, Mapping Security is designed for companies seeking to do business in more than one country. It focuses on the security, regulatory and cultural factors any business should consider before taking itself global. It has received high praise from the likes of Vint Cerf, Wired Magazine's Chris Anderson and Network World's Ellen Messmer.

From 2000 to 2002, Scott served on the Caltech-MIT Enterprise Forum Executive Committee. He has also been a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). He has taught writing, television production, radio production, marketing and advertising at Neumann College (Aston, Pennsylvania), Azusa Pacific University (Los Angeles), Bethel University (St. Paul, Minnesota) and guest lectured at UCLA and the University of Southern California. He has contributed to a host of publications including, most recently, the San Diego Business Journal,The Philadelphia Arts Writers and Trading Card News.

Scott holds a bachelor's degree in broadcast communications from Asbury College (Wilmore, Kentucky) and a master's degree in communications, with an emphasis in print journalism, from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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