Jeff Sutherland is the co-creator of Scrum, inventor of Scrum@Scale, signatory of the Agile Manifesto, and founder of Scrum Inc.
 
He launched the first Scrum team in 1993 and has shepherded its growth into 100 countries and almost every industry from finance and healthcare to higher education and telecom. He has been the CTO of eleven software companies.
 
Jeff started his career as a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force where he achieved Top Gun status in 1967 and flew 100 combat missions over North Vietnam. After 11 years as a pilot, he joined the faculty of the University of Colorado Medical School. As Assistant Professor of Radiology, Biometrics, and Preventive Medicine he co-founded the Center for Vitamins and Cancer Research under the sponsorship of Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling. For eight years he was the Principle Investigator of a National Cancer Center research grant that ran all IT programs and research for the Colorado Regional Cancer Center.
 
In 1983, Jeff joined a banking company that operated 150 banks throughout North America where he was VP of Advanced Systems and General Manager of their ATM Business Unit. Noticing that waterfall processes were not working, he implemented the first prototype of Scrum for organizational transformation of a business unit.
 
In 2006, Jeff established his own company, Scrum, Inc., now recognized as the premier source of Scrum Training in the world. He co-authored the bestselling book, Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time, and his latest book is titled A Scrum Book: The Spirit of the Game.
 
In 2018, Jeff Published the Scrum@Scale Guide, codifying a framework which uniquely overcomes common scaling challenges by extending Scrum throughout an entire organization to deliver true business agility.  
 
Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Mathematics, and Economics from the United States Military Academy at West Point, a Master of Science degree in Statistics, Mathematics, and Computer Science from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in Biometrics, Radiology, and Preventive Medicine from the University of Colorado School of Medicine.