Bio

John Scull, Lecturer in Management and teaches STRAMGT 356, Startup Garage as well as STRAMGT 357: Ecopreneurship Foundations

Scull is a co-founding Managing Director of Southern Cross Venture Partners with offices in Palo Alto, Sydney and Shanghai (through a partnership with Softbank China Venture Capital). He is also an Investment Committee member of Sydney-based Blackbird Ventures. He has served on the boards of several private and public companies and was CEO of both Macromind (which merged to become Macromedia and later acquired by Adobe) and PF Magic (acquired by the Learning Company). Earlier in his career he was a marketing executive at Apple where he helped launch the Macintosh personal computer and led Apple’s Desktop Publishing efforts. Scull received his MBA from Harvard University and Bachelor degree from University of Oklahoma.

He was born and raised in Indonesia and Singapore and enjoys travel, golf, swimming, pickleball, french wine, and the occasional margarita :)

Academic Appointments

  • Lecturer, Graduate School of Business - Other Faculty

2026-27 Courses