ABOUT SCOTT
"I found your presentation seamless, compelling, and perhaps most importantly never ponderous or pedantic. And your ability to integrate the visuals and the music made this prose writer jealous as hell. I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation."
– Jonathan Gould, Author, Can't Buy Me Love
Scott Freiman may be the only person to have sold out Carnegie Hall and been a Finalist for Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year. He is also a leading expert on the music of the Beatles who has appeared in several films and TV series about the Fab Four.
Scott is the host of the television series Deconstructing the Beatles currently playing on public television stations nationwide, as well as the PBS Passport app. He is featured in eleven Deconstructing the Beatles films currently showing in theatres and available on DVD and streaming.
Scott is the creator of Deconstructing The Music, a series of unique multimedia lectures on the songwriting and production techniques of musicians, including The Beatles and Pink Floyd. He has presented his lectures to sold-out audiences at theaters nationwide and has spoken at colleges, universities, and corporations, such as Pixar, Google, and Facebook. In the Fall of 2012, he taught a semester course on “The Beatles In The Studio” at Yale University. He co-hosts the monthly Fab Four Master Class with fellow musicologist Kenneth Womack with whom he leads occasional Beatles-themed trips to Liverpool and London.
Scott is the author of two forthcoming books, co-written with Kenneth Womack — The Beatles In Red, 1962-1966: Inside The Fab Four’s Songwriting, Musicianship, and Production (Sept. 2026) and The Beatles In Blue, 1967-2025: Inside The Fab Four’s Songwriting, Musicianship, and Production (Sept. 2026).
Scott is the former owner of Second Act Studio, a state-of-the-art music and video studio for composition, recording, and production designed by renowned studio architect, John Storyk. Second Act Studio played host to a wide range of musicians -- from children to Grammy winners, such as bassist John Patitucci and the Tokyo String Quartet. Scott produced, arranged, and played keyboards for many artists and served as producer on recordings recorded and mixed at Second Act. Scott also created courses for MacProVideo.com, providing online video training in professional software, and taught composing and music technology to children and adults.
Scott has composed music for more than ten films and contributed music to the Emmy®-award winning eleven-part BBC/Discovery series Life. He also acted as sound editor and mixer on many films, including the first 3D made-for-television film, David Attenborough’s Flying Monsters, and the award-winning films Encounter Point and Budrus. In September of 2005, his original music was performed at a sold-out Carnegie Hall concert that featured an orchestra, a children’s choir, and a George Bush impersonator.
Scott is an experienced senior executive and entrepreneur with extensive expertise in strategy, marketing, technology, and operations. He was co-founder and CEO of Credit Management Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq:CMSS), a publicly traded financial software and services company that was named one of Maryland’s 50 fastest growing technology companies by Deloitte & Touche. He helped lead the company through a successful IPO and its sale to First American Financial (NYSE:FAF). CMSI built the Credit Online Network, which is currently owned by Cox Automotive. This network currently processes several million credit applications each month, has more than 22,000 dealers, and has partnered with more than 6,500 lenders, making it one of the highest transaction business networks in the world.
Scott also co-founded Qwire Inc., whose software streamlines music tracking and rights management for television series, films and other media for major Hollywood studios, such as Warner Bros. and NBCUniversal. Currently, he is a partner in NextCorner Partners, a consulting firm that assists companies with strategy and fundraising. He holds multiple software patents and was a Finalist for Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year.
Scott holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Music from Yale University and a Masters of Music Composition from New York University. He is married to Allison Fine, the President of Every.org and an acclaimed author and speaker on AI and philanthropy. He has three children, Max, Zack, and Jack, who are all doing great things and (most importantly) no longer on his payroll.