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 also been named a Finalist for Ernst & 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 hosts the television series Deconstructing the Beatles, now in its second season on 278 PBS stations nationwide and on the PBS Passport app. A third season will air in 2027. He is the creator and presenter of twelve Deconstructing the Beatles films, currently showing in theaters and available on DVD and streaming.
Scott created 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. He has also spoken at colleges and universities, at conferences and festivals such as the Imagine Solutions Conference and the Carmel Authors and Ideas Festival, and at 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 Beatles scholar Kenneth Womack, with whom he leads occasional Beatles-themed trips to Liverpool, London, and Hamburg.
With Kenneth Womack, Scott is co-author of The Beatles’ Eras, a two-volume study of the Beatles music published by Bloomsbury. The volumes are The Beatles’ Touring Era: Inside the Fab Four’s Musical Artistry, Song by Song, 1962-1966 (November 2026) and The Beatles’ Studio Era: Inside the Fab Four’s Musical Artistry, Song by Song, 1967-1970 (November 2027).
Scott is an experienced senior executive and entrepreneur with extensive expertise in strategy, marketing, technology, and operations, and he holds multiple software patents. He was co-founder and CEO of Credit Management Solutions, Inc. (CMSI; Nasdaq:CMSS), a publicly traded financial software and services company that Deloitte & Touche named one of Maryland’s 50 fastest-growing technology companies. He helped lead the company through a successful IPO and its sale to First American Financial (NYSE:FAF). CMSI built the Credit Online Network, now owned by Cox Automotive. This network processes several million credit applications each month for more than 22,000 dealers and 6,500 lenders, making it one of the highest-volume transaction 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 at major Hollywood studios such as Warner Bros. and NBCUniversal.
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. The studio played host to a wide range of musicians, from children to Grammy winners such as bassist John Patitucci and acclaimed ensembles such as the Tokyo String Quartet. Scott produced, arranged, and played keyboards for many artists who recorded and mixed at Second Act. He also created more than twenty courses for MacProVideo.com, which provides 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 Life, the Emmy® Award-winning eleven-part BBC/Discovery series. He has also worked 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 documentaries Encounter Point and Budrus. In September 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 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.