Scott Lincke is the Sr. Director of Products for Yahoo! Connected TV. Scott leads the product management and user experience teams in developing product strategy & roadmap, product definition and user interface design.
Yahoo! Connected TV is the leading platform for Internet-connected TV, and is available across leading TV brands worldwide including Samsung, Sony, Toshiba, VIZIO and LG. More than 6 million consumers have purchased TVs with Yahoo! Connected TV. Today the Yahoo! Connected TV experience centers around a collection of more than 100 easy-to-use TV Apps, providing deep content specifically designed to complement TV viewing. TV Apps run the gamut from social networking to music, games, news, weather, finance, shopping, and more than 50,000 movies and TV shows on-demand.
Scott brings a strong background in interactive TV product management and engineering to his position. Prior to Yahoo!, Scott held executive roles at WebTaps, a company that developed technology to enable fun and efficient web browsing on HDTVs and was VP of Product Management at Hillcrest Labs where he led management of the company’s innovative TV interface products. Scott has also held leadership roles in the mobile computing industry, including serving as Director of Wireless Products at Palm Inc.
Scott holds a BS degree in computer science from Indiana University and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
