Scott Stedman

Scott Stedman is a serial entrepreneur and business leader. He’s built companies from scratch to successful sale that transform culture. He most recently served as Chief Growth and Product Officer for Havas + Arnold Worldwide. He integrated media with creative to develop a new go-to-market for the integrated agency, presided over transformational growth as the agency won marquee clients from Cox Communications to Homeserve. He is currently an advisor to a diverse group of companies including Goldman Sachs, Nom, and Octane11.

He came to Havas + Arnold Worldwide from a successful period as the CMO of MDC Media Partners.

Previously, Stedman founded and ran Brooklyn’s ‘The L Magazine,’ a free weekly guide distributed throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan, and The Northside Media Group, which grew to include Brooklyn Magazine, the Northside Festival, Taste Talks, Summer Screen and Northside Creative Group, before it sold successfully to Zealot Networks in 2015. 

A noted thought leader, Stedman has hosted innovation and entrepreneurship events in New York, Miami, Austin, Chicago and Los Angeles, as well as at CES and Cannes Lions. He is also a co-founder, with Wilco’s John Stirratt and Broder Property’s Ben Svenson, of TOURISTS, a luxury hotel resort based in Western Massachusetts that in 2021 was awarded a coveted place on Fodor Magazine’s Top 100 Finest Hotels in the World. 

He also launched a curated community of marketers and poets called Saturnalia, currently sits on the board of the Made in NY Media Center, the YMCA, and is a host family for the A Better Chance Program.