Scott Durchslag

Chief Operating Officer

As COO, Scott Durchslag is responsible for leading Skype’s operations, as well as for overseeing the company’s design, products, marketing, payments and customer care activities. He manages Skype’s consumer, business, and mobile business units and its Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions.

Scott brings 20 years of experience working for Fortune 100 technology companies, startups, and professional services organizations. Prior to joining Skype in 2008, he spent five years at Motorola on the management team of its mobile devices business. Most recently, he served as corporate vice president of global product & experience invention. He was also general manager of South Asia and chief strategy officer of the personal communications sector where he architected the turnaround strategy that doubled market share and revenues between 2002 and 2007.

Earlier, Scott was involved in Grand Central, a Silicon Valley enterprise software startup and was one of the early thought leaders on Web services at The Chasm Group. He was also a partner at McKinsey & Company where he served technology clients in the firm’s New York and China offices.

He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Chicago and received his MBA from the Harvard Business School.