Scott Pomeroy

Scott Pomeroy began his career as an auditor and has spent the four decades since moving between the finance chair, the chief executive's office, and the boardroom at companies in aerospace and drones, healthcare, media, consumer products, and financial services. He lives in Littleton, Colorado, and now advises public and soon-to-be-public companies on strategy, capital structure, market positioning, and how to work productively with investment bankers and investors. Until August 2026, he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of XTI Aerospace, Inc. (Nasdaq: XTIA), a role he reached through a capital-raising engagement and an interim finance role. That progression is characteristic: companies hire Scott Pomeroy to advise, then ask him to run things.

Scott Pomeroy graduated with honors from the University of New Mexico in 1984 with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting, and earned his Certified Public Accountant certification the following year. He joined KPMG Peat Marwick and rose from auditor to Senior Manager over eight years there, through 1992. Auditors learn to read a company from its records rather than its story. This habit explains the assignments he has drawn since: situations in which the balance sheet, the capital structure, and the operating plan all needed attention at once.

Scott Pomeroy's first operating post was at Lewis Foods Group, a $250 million food-processing business, where he was President and Chief Financial Officer from 1993 to 2000. He negotiated acquisitions there, rebuilt the sales, marketing, and plant organizations, and secured a long-term manufacturing agreement with The Pillsbury Company. In 1998, the company handed him full operating leadership, and in 1999 he saw the group through its sale to Diageo. Two shorter assignments followed: Chief Financial Officer of Eotec Capital, LLC from 2000 to 2002, then a 2002 engagement advising Qwest Communications on the QwestDex divestiture through CEO Partner Group, LLC, covering the carve-out, the sale terms, and a controls review that reached more than 25 senior finance executives.

In November 2002, Scott Pomeroy joined Dex Media, Inc. (NYSE: DEX), the third-largest directory publisher in the country at roughly $1.6 billion in revenue, as Senior Vice President, Finance and Treasurer. Over the next two years, he managed more than $3 billion in high-yield offerings and more than $3 billion in bank financings, including a $1 billion sponsor dividend. He helped bring the company's $1 billion initial public offering to market. Promoted to Chief Financial Officer in February 2005, he took on investor and analyst conversations, clarifying how the market should think about the company's free cash flow, its tax-shield economics, and which comparable companies applied. The stock climbed roughly 30% across his 14 months in the role. He then negotiated the sale of the company to R.H. Donnelley, delivering approximately 90% to the private equity sponsors over a three-year hold. From the carve-out of Qwest through the 2004 offering to the 2006 merger, Dex Media was, at that point, the second-largest buyout in U.S. corporate history.

In March 2006, Scott Pomeroy became founding President and Chief Executive Officer of Local Insight Media and The Berry Company, a Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe portfolio company, and led it until January 2011. The business grew into the country's fifth-largest directory publisher, with approximately $600 million in annual revenue and 1,600 employees. He folded in six acquisitions spanning the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic, reviewed more than 150 digital companies, put four technology partnerships in place, and drove the shift from print directories to digital local-media products across the organization.