Chris Scotte is a Senior Vice President at Povaddo. With over 25 years of research experience, he is an expert in brand reputation, global opinion research, and B2B/consumer research. Chris partners with clients to understand major societal and business challenges and, through analysis and insights, provide top-tier strategic counsel. Chris also helps drive Povaddo’s thought leadership initiatives to fuel education and insights on meaningful global issues and challenges.
Before Povaddo, Chris was a Senior Vice President and Partner at FleishmanHillard where he was the commercial director and global technology lead; he also ran the US central region’s intelligence team. During his career, Chris also held senior roles at Greenberg Strategy (now Material) in San Fransisco where he was Vice President and Manager of the quantitative research team. He was also a Senior Research Director at GfK in Los Angeles running the automotive research team.
Chris is a former visiting professor and lecturer at the university level where he taught subjects pertaining to marketing and research for top institutions in Bahrain, South Korea, China, and Australia. Chris’s love of learning shows as he holds a master’s of management from Griffith University with a specialization in research, a master’s of business from the Queensland University of Technology with a specialization in marketing, and a bachelor’s of business from Griffith University with specializations in human resource management and marketing.
Chris is originally from Gold Coast, Australia and is now based in St. Louis, Missouri. He played soccer at university and loves to cook.
