Roman Scott

Co-Founder

Harvard JD/MBA

Roman Scott is an entrepreneur focused on building generational wealth. He graduated with a master’s in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University, where during his time he interned as a software engineer at Meta and an investment analyst at BlackRock. He also worked for a real estate developer in Ghana and worked on research in machine translation for African dialects in Kenya and South Africa. He is an Apple, BlackRock, and Jackie Robinson Scholar and also a concert pianist.

Roman will lead Burton Algorithms, a software development agency that specializes in deploying machine learning models for startups and enterprises, as well as Breakthrough Ventures, before attending Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School to pursue their joint JD/MBA program. Roman’s career goal is to create a fund that invests in energy infrastructure and manufacturing in Africa.

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