# Scott Howe

> Scott Howe is the Chief Executive Officer of LiveRamp, the San Francisco-based data collaboration platform that helps the world's largest brands stitch together customer signal across walled gardens, clean rooms, and a cookieless web. He took the job in October 2018 after seven years running Acxiom, LiveRamp's former parent, and before that ran Microsoft's multi-billion-dollar advertising business and helped build Avenue A | Razorfish at aQuantive.

- **Role:** Chief Executive Officer at LiveRamp
- **Organizations:** LiveRamp, Acxiom, Microsoft, aQuantive, Boston Consulting Group, Kidder, Peabody & Company
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** A.B. Economics, magna cum laude, Princeton University, MBA, Harvard Business School
- **Known for:** Took LiveRamp from an Acxiom acquisition to a standalone NYSE-listed company, Named one of Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business (2014), IAB Service Excellence Award honoree for visionary industry leadership

## Career timeline

- **early career** — Analyst at Kidder, Peabody & Company and consultant at The Boston Consulting Group
- **1999-2007** — Executive and corporate officer at aQuantive, running Avenue A | Razorfish, DRIVE Performance Media, and Atlas International
- **2007-2010** — Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Advertising Business Group
- **2011** — Named CEO and President of Acxiom
- **2014** — Acxiom acquires LiveRamp; Fast Company names Howe one of the world's Most Creative People
- **2018** — Acxiom Marketing Solutions sold to IPG; Howe becomes CEO of the renamed standalone LiveRamp on October 1
- **2024** — Honored with IAB Service Excellence Award

## Achievements

- Took LiveRamp from an Acxiom acquisition to a standalone NYSE-listed company
- Named one of Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business (2014)
- IAB Service Excellence Award honoree for visionary industry leadership
- Built Microsoft's emerging advertising business into a multi-billion-dollar line
- Helped scale Avenue A | Razorfish into the world's largest digital agency at the time

## Latest updates

- **2024-09** — Spoke with Axios about LiveRamp profitability, life as a public company, and the Google antitrust trial.
- **2025-09** — Featured speaker at Advertising Week New York 2025.

## Links

- Website: https://liveramp.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/schowe
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/LiveRamp
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhtbEtZDLVo
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/LiveRamp

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Last updated: 2026-05-30