Summary
J Scott is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with a decade of experience building and scaling lending, payments, and data-driven platforms. As a former Block executive, he founded Square Capital and led underwriting, driving the business from inception to tens of thousands of merchants and multi-hundred-million loan volumes, while shaping company-wide data and risk practices. He currently serves as cofounder and CEO of Stealth, steering a high-growth venture, and previously led Gumtap as cofounder and CEO. Across his career he has been an active investor and advisor to dozens of startups and funds, with deep domain expertise in ecommerce, payments, anti-fraud, lending, and hands-on capabilities in hiring, data science, internal tools, and manual review. He has a track record of building data-driven teams, from early data science foundations to scalable operations, including bootstrapped, profitable ventures like Bridgerock Data. Based in Miami, he combines entrepreneurial grit with a practical, product-focused approach to turning complex problems into auditable, scalable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at The Bolles School
B.S. Finance, B.S. Finance at University of Florida