Scott Blackburn is a US Army Veteran. After completing ROTC at MIT, Scott served as an Armor and Signal Corps officer from 1999-2003. Scott was stationed at Fort Wainwright, Alaska and deployed overseas in support of Operation Freedom. Scott’s service was cut short by a non-combat related back injury suffered in Kuwait and he was medically discharged. The VA’s Vocational Rehab program helped Scott attend Harvard Business School (HBS) upon separation.
After graduating from HBS in 2005, Scott became an associate at McKinsey & Company, the renowned worldwide management consulting firm. Scott developed an expertise in turning around and transforming the culture of large, often bureaucratic, Fortune 500 companies. Scott became a partner at McKinsey in 2011.
In November 2014, shortly after Bob McDonald was sworn in as Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Scott joined the team to lead the MyVA transformation.
Scott grew up in Scituate, Massachusetts in a family with a rich history of military service. Scott is one of five children, all of which are Veterans. Scott recently moved to Bethesda, Maryland from Shaker Heights, Ohio where he had lived for the previous 10 years with his wife and three children.
If you have trouble with the document
(above) you can view it online here:
Brain
Trust.
This is
a great
example
of how
we are
partnering
with the
private
sector
to solve
some of
the most
important
problems
facing
both
Veterans
and
American
Medicine.
The VA
is
actually
the
leader
in brain
research
(as an
aside…I,
along
with
Secretary
Bob
McDonald
and a
few
others,
have
actually
agreed
to
donate
my brain
to
science
through
Chris
Nowinski’s
Concussion
Legacy
Foundation
http://concussionfoundation.org/;
I was a
football
player
at MIT
at the
same
time
Chris
was a
football
player
at
Harvard
before
he
became a
WWE
Super
Star. I
played
QB and
got
sacked A
LOT;
Chris
therefore
convinced
me to
donate).
Community
Veterans
Advisory
Boards.
http://www.va.gov/nace/myVA/index.asp.
We have
now
established
65
around
the
country
(goal is
100 by
the end
of the
year).
We have
an
additional
61
communities
that
have
expressed
an
interest
and whom
we are
working
with to
put this
in
place.
I have
attached
a
spreadsheet
with the
65.
In
addition
to
those
in
the
spreadsheet,
in
California
we
are
working
with
Sacramento,
Fresno
and
Loma
Linda.
In
addition,
we
are
speaking
to
Butler,
Altoona
and
Erie
in
PA