Scott Culpepper is an experienced technology general counsel with a background in engineering and a legal career spanning both the courtroom and the boardroom. As Mailchimp’s first-ever general counsel, he served on the company’s executive leadership team during a period of significant employee and customer growth. His role included advising business leaders on data privacy, artificial intelligence, compliance, human resources and corporate transactional matters, while also building and leading Mailchimp’s in-house legal department. He guided the company’s legal team through its 2021 acquisition by Intuit, the largest-ever sale of a self-funded technology company.

Before joining Mailchimp, Culpepper was a trial attorney focused on technology and intellectual property cases in federal courts and before the International Trade Commission. A registered patent attorney, he holds a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a juris doctor from Vanderbilt University Law School.