Scott Flanders
| Scott Flanders | |
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| Born |
December 26, 1956 Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of Colorado, Indiana University and Maurer School of Law |
| Occupation | Chief Executive Officer of eHealthInsurance, Inc. |
Scott N. Flanders (born December 26, 1956) is an American corporate executive with experience in the media, entertainment and technology industries. He is currently chief executive officer of eHealthInsurance, Inc. (Nasdaq: EHTH), a role he assumed on May 31, 2016. He was formerly chief executive officer of Playboy Enterprises, a role he assumed on July 1, 2009.
Flanders was born on December 26, 1956 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He attended the University of Colorado, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. He later received a Juris Doctor from Maurer School of Law at Indiana University. He is also a C.P.A.
From 1986 to 1998, Flanders was the president of Macmillan Publishers. He joined Macmillan from Que Corp., where he oversaw the sale of the computer book publisher to Macmillan in 1986. In his subsequent 14 years at Macmillan, he established the firm as the world's largest computer book publisher and the first publisher of books about the Internet. The company's revenues increased from $5 million to $500 million under his leadership. The Macmillan name was acquired by Pearson in 1998.
Between 1998 and 1999, he was co-founder, chairman and chief executive of Telstreet.com, an Indianapolis-based e-commerce company that merged with Buy.com in 2000.
In 1999, Flanders was hired by Sony and Time Warner Inc. to lead the integration of CDNow, an online music retailer, and Columbia House to establish a new public company jointly held by the two CDNow shareholders The merger plans, made public in the fall of 1999, were dissolved in March 2000, with many analysts pointed to the bursting of the dot-com bubble as a factor.
After the dissolution of the merger, Flanders transitioned to the role of Chairman and CEO of Columbia House Company, where he led the company's turnaround strategy, making several executive changes and transitioning the company from a print customer acquisition model to one dominated by online.
Flanders also led a leveraged buyout of Columbia House by the Blackstone Group. Columbia House was later sold to Bertelsmann in a transaction that closed in July 2005.
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