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“Probably continuing along the lines of what I’m doing now—advisory roles for non-profits and community initiatives such as the King Park board.”
Chief Operating Officer, Angie's List
Age: 39
When Scott Brenton became chief operating officer of Angie’s List 12 years ago, he was a sort of jack-of-all trades.
“The title was a little silly when I started,” said Brenton, because there were only six employees, and he found himself doing everything from answering phones to fixing computers. Today, with 750 employees, he focuses on how the company collects, polishes and distributes information, including tools that allow Angie’s List members to retrieve information online and with mobile phones.
As one of the core leaders of Angie’s List since 1999, he is credited with its growth and transition into a booming Web-based business providing reliable consumer information on plumbers, roofers, painters and other service providers.
Brenton grew up on Indy’s south side and attended Center Grove High School. A graduate of Purdue University with a bachelor’s in industrial management, Brenton knew co-founders Angie Hicks and Bill Oesterle from his postgraduate fellowship at Indianapolis-based CID Equity Partners, where Oesterle was a mentor and Hicks was an intern.
His appreciation of the people at CID who took him under their wing is why Brenton, who also has an MBA from Harvard, believes in doing his part to nurture young people along in their careers.
As chairman of the Orr Entrepreneurial Fellowship program, he does just that. The Orr Fellowship’s goal is to identify and nurture the next generation of Indiana’s business leaders. Each year, Brenton explained, the program selects 20 to 30 of the most-promising college applicants and places them with local, high-growth companies that agree to mentor them and nurture their careers.
He is also on the board of Techpoint, which promotes technology-based enterprise and economic developments, and Pellegrino and Associates, a private company that provides valuation services for intellectual property, finance and technology issues.
A competitive runner and cyclist, Brenton and his wife, Julie, have three children ages 6, 9 and 11.•
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