Scott Wu
Scott Wu is the CTO of Compass Digital Labs (CDL), a subsidiary of Compass Group with 300 employees focused on driving the digital future in food retail and hospitality. His work has been influential in the creation of Kitchen OS to empower merchants and operators to build, innovate and grow their businesses, as well as the spinoff of a new data SaaS platform that provides consumer food purchase insights. In Scott’s time at CDL, he’s been instrumental in the development of the mobile food ordering platform that is currently generating millions in sales, as well as opening the first frictionless retail store leveraging computer vision in the food hospitality industry.
Most recently, Scott established Compass’s corporate venture capital division, Compass Digital Ventures, raising its first fund in Q1 of 2021. Under his leadership, the CVC will make strategic investments to drive disruptive innovation in the food, retail, and hospitality industry and for Compass Group.
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