Jeff Sutherland

Jeff Sutherland is the inventor and Co-Creator of Scrum, and an author, coach and consultant. He started the first Scrum at Easel Corporation in 1993, and worked with Ken Schwaber to develop Scrum into a formal process. Together, they have extended and enhanced Scrum at many companies, especially in the the software and IT industry. Jeff is currently the CEO of Scrum Inc. He is also Chairman of the Scrum Foundation and Agile coach to OpenView Venture Partners (which runs all its internal operations with Scrum), and more than 30 portfolio companies. Jeff has been VP of Engineering, CTO, or CEO of 11 companies and implemented Scrum in 7 of them including his current company. His experience in teaching Scrum at the Harvard Business School helps with management workshops.