11 Facts About Scott Flanders

Scott N Flanders is an American corporate executive in the media, entertainment and technology industries.

Scott Flanders is currently chief executive officer and long-term member of the board of directors at eHealth, Inc.

Scott Flanders formerly was CEO of Playboy Enterprises, and held CEO positions at Macmillan Publishers, Telstreet, Freedom Communications, and Columbia House.

Scott Flanders attended the University of Colorado, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics.

Scott Flanders later received a Juris Doctor from Maurer School of Law at Indiana University.

From 1986 to 1998, Scott Flanders was the president of Macmillan Publishers.

In 1999, Scott Flanders was hired by Sony and Time Warner Inc to lead the integration of CDNow, an online music retailer, and Columbia House to establish a new public company jointly held by the two CDNow shareholders The merger plans, made public in the fall of 1999, were dissolved in March 2000, with many analysts pointed to the bursting of the dot-com bubble as a factor.

Scott Flanders led a leveraged buyout of Columbia House by the Blackstone Group.

Scott Flanders was on Freedom Communications' board of directors during this time and as an independent director for five years before joining the company as its president and CEO.

Scott Flanders was president of the firm during the transformation of Playboy into a brand management company.

Scott Flanders took over as CEO of eHealth, Inc after being a member of eHealth's board for eight years.