Scott Kauffman

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Scott Kauffman (born 1956) is an American business manager.

He was born in Princeton, New Jersey to Ellwood and Shirley Kauffman, and grew up with his sister Jane and brothers Geoffrey and Matthew. In 1973 he appeared briefly in Steven E. de Souza's first film, Arnold's Wrecking Co..

Kauffman has worked for a variety of media companies; the first was Time Warner in the founding of Entertainment Weekly.

His next job was as a vice-president of CompuServe, where he worked on all of the online brands and pioneered SpryNet - CompuServe's ISP service. With the help from Goldman Sachs, Kauffman participated in the development of one of the first public offerings of the Internet industry.He was recruited to Silicon Valley from CompuServe in 1997 by Kleiner Perkins to become president and CEO of AdKnowledge, a company focused on developing management solutions for Internet advertising.

Before Scott left AdKnowledge (and the company was sold to CMGI), it grew to over 80 employees and more than 100 customers. Kauffman then spent time in turn with eCoverage, a direct-to-consumer online insurance company, Coremetrics, and (as President and CEO) MusicNow, an online music service partnered with FullAudio.

Scott holds an AB in English from Vassar College and an MBA in marketing from New York University's Graduate School of Business. He was honored by Advertising Age in 1996 as one of twenty Digital Media Masters. In July of 1992, Advertising Age named him one of the top 100 marketers in the country. As of 2005, he heads the San Francisco-based digital-magazine service provider Zinio, and lives with his wife Nanci, daughter Sarah, and son Stephen in Palo Alto, California.