Scott Klososky currently engages clients on a broad array of
advisory tasks that include IT department restructuring, software
implementation and design, and technology utilization within
organizations. In addition, he speaks
professionally on subjects such as technology and leadership, and currently
serves as an Advisory Board Member for Critical Technologies, a company he
served as CEO from 2001 until 2004.
Klososky’s role at Critical Technologies was to build-out a fledgling
Web-based imaging product, rebuild the employee base and product line while
also adding referenceable customers.
Previous to his position with Critical Technologies,
Klososky served as Vice President of Production for iBEAM Broadcasting®
Corporation. Klososky led a 150-person
team that covered the geographical areas of California,
Oklahoma, New
York and London. Under his leadership iBEAM completed two
acquisitions, produced $40 million of business to become one of the industry’s leading
streaming communications solutions provider.
Scott was the founder and CEO of webcasts.com, a premier
Internet broadcaster for interactive webcasts.
Webcasts.com established itself as the Web's only full-service broadcast
production company, helping clients in the corporate, sports and entertainment
industries webcast the most interactive, cost-effective, highest-quality
productions. Webcasts.com was acquired
by iBEAM for approximately $115 million in stock in April of 2000.
Klososky's predecessor company to webcasts.com was an
interactive marketing company, which effectively continued to operate as a
division of webcasts.com. In 1999, he
spearheaded the acquisition by webcasts.com of The Rock Island Group, a network
design and management company, which developed and operated webcasts.com's
network for webcast delivery.
Klososky’s vision and leadership positioned webcasts.com to
lead with innovations that include the first music CD to launch to the
Internet, the first interactive CD-ROM to be used to lobby Congress, and the
first CD-ROM/Web-based product designed to generate donations for a non-profit
organization. The company’s clients
included IBM, Compaq, AOL, Hewlett-Packard, Enron International, Conoco Inc.,
and BMG Music, among others
Prior to founding webcasts.com's predecessor company in
1994, Klososky was a digital-age international entrepreneur. A protégé of former President Richard M.
Nixon's chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, the pair collaborated on "The Haldeman
Diaries," a New York Times bestseller.
Klososky had the foresight to work with Sony Entertainment and create
the diaries into a book/CD-ROM, and it was one of Sony's first profitable
CD-ROM products in 1994. Mr. Haldeman
passed away before the products were released, so Klososky represented Haldeman
as the national book tour spokesman.
In 1988, at the age of 26, Klososky founded one of the first
profitable Soviet/American joint ventures, ParaGraph, Inc., with Russian
partners including Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion. ParaGraph designed the original handwritten
text-recognition software for the Apple Newton and was later sold to Silicon
Graphics. The ParaGraph software
standard is now commonly used in personal digital assistants.