Scott Reardon was raised in South Dakota. In college he ran Georgetown Free University, Co-Chaired GU’s International Association of Students in Economics and Commercial Sciences and was elected the first student on Georgetown College’s governing council. After receiving a Masters degree in Business he joined Dakon-Dakota Iron, his family’s firm, wholesaling to 5,000 Midwest retailers. Later he became its president.
In 1980 he launched the first of twenty self-funded startups, initially in broadcasting, as an owner and operator. In 1987, Scott began to buy, build and operate cellular telephone systems. Moore’s Law, doubling microchip capacity every 18 months, implied that mobile phones would become universal. Later he launched a national wireless network offering vital last-mile broadband services to Fortune 1000 and small and medium businesses. Scott’s current primary focus is on business-to-business cloud-based software startups.
Scott and his wife, Rosemarie, moved to Darien in the early 1990s, raised four great kids and currently spoil three grandchildren. His interests include art, especially modern, history, public affairs, poverty alleviation and economics. His service to nonprofits include multiple terms on Georgetown University’s Board of Regents and twenty years as Chairman of the Deutsche Bank Microcredit Development Fund.
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