Scot Landry is Executive Director of Istituto Acton. Previously, Scot has served in many business and Church leadership roles. In business, he served three times as a Chief Operating Officer (Polyphonic Capital, Eze Castle Software and Eze Castle Integration) as a strategy consultant (Parthenon), and in brand management (Procter & Gamble, James River). For the Church, as a Cabinet member at the Archdiocese of Boston, Scot led the Advancement and Catholic Media teams. He has also worked as an executive or consultant for a number of Catholic apostolates (Our Sunday Visitor, Dynamic Catholic, CatholicVote, Catholic Voices, The Station of the Cross Radio Network, and The Pontifical Mission Societies).
Scot is the author of Transforming Parish Communications: Growing the Church through New Media(published by Our Sunday Visitor in 2014) and hosted The Good Catholic Life daily radio program on Boston Catholic Radio for three years. Among the awards Scot has won are the Catholic Press Association’s Clarion Award and Legatus’ “Ambassador of the Year” Award. Scot and his wife Ximena are proud parents of three grown children. He graduated from both Harvard Business School (MBA) and Harvard College (AB, Government).