Scott Williams helps businesses grow.
With a career spanning television and hospitality, Scott Williams is a brand builder focused on the theatrical narrative at the heart of brands. Williams founded and operates Hitchcock Partners, a business growth advisory.
Most recently he was President of The Nantucket Project, a media and event company widely hailed for reimagining how short films and live gatherings are produced. He was Chief Creative Officer at Commune Hotels & Resorts where he ran global brand development, including creative relating to new hotel concept development and oversight of Marketing, PR, Digital and Social Media. As Chief Marketing Officer of Morgans Hotel Group, he was the chief architect of brand strategy and realization for the hotels that invented the concept of “hotel as theater.” Prior to Morgans, as Chief Creative Officer Worldwide for Starwood Hotels & Resorts, he held the final responsibility for the quality of all of Starwood’s creative products. Williams’s television career included marketing and producing efforts at CBS, ESPN and HBO. And as a writer, producer and teacher, he had stellar theatrical experiences at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater and at the storied Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago.
Williams is a Graduate School Advisor in the School of Visual Arts MFA program, a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and serves on the programming committee at the Harvard Club NY.
He received a GMP from Harvard Business School, a MFA from the American Conservatory Theater and a BA in Theater from the University of Washington.