Scott Horton
Founding Director
Scott is a Founding Director at Troocoo and leads the Strategic Partnerships team along with fellow co-founder, Liana Callaghan. The Strategic Partnerships team is committed to delivering tailored people solutions and exceptional outcomes for Troocoo’s clients across Australia. The team creates value in these partnerships by providing clients with data driven solutions, valuable insights, market intelligence, and advice they can trust. The Strategic Partnerships team ensures that they are delivering sustainable growth for Troocoo’s clients by solving their biggest people challenges.
Scott has developed an extensive connection to senior leadership teams in ASX-listed businesses, not for profits, statutory authorities, government entities, SMEs, and private equity firms. Scott is passionate about building high-performing teams and businesses, and partners with boards, executives, and HR to deliver innovative people solutions.
Scott has founded and built two highly successful recruitment and search firms since relocating to Australia from the UK in 2006. Prior to co-founding Troocoo, Scott was a co-founder and director at u&u Recruitment Partners, where he built a high-performing and successful business. In 2017, Scott co-founded Troocoo, which has been recognised by BRW as one of Australia’s top 100 fastest growing organisations in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.
Scott attributes this success to his passion for people partnerships and building long-term relationships.
Scott was originally based in the UK where he worked for global organisations such as Dun & Bradstreet, Vodafone and Xerox Corporation. He also spent four years as global account director for global telecommunications and technology (GTT) where he managed two global accounts and was responsible for managing a team with key personnel in London, New York, Paris, Düsseldorf, New Delhi and Singapore.
