Scott Brown, President, Direct Platform

Scott Brown is President of Morningstar’s Direct Platform, leading the company’s largest business segment delivering Morningstar’s data, research, ratings, and analytics through connected, technology‑enabled products.  

Brown is responsible for Direct Platform’s flagship products including Morningstar Direct, Morningstar Data, and Direct Advisory Suite and embedded capabilities such as manager research and ratings. He is focused on advancing platform capabilities, accelerating product innovation, and embedding Morningstar’s intellectual property into client workflows across global asset and wealth management. 

Brown has more than two decades of experience building and scaling global data and analytics platforms, modernizing legacy systems, and delivering AI‑enabled products that support growth and operational excellence. He joined Morningstar from Experian, where he served as Group President and led a multi‑billion‑dollar portfolio across the Financial Services & Data and Marketing Services divisions. At Experian he advanced the Ascend platform with AI-driven products, including AI model deployment capability Ascend Ops, and introduced the first combined credit score using consumer permissioned banking data. Previously, Brown held senior leadership roles at Nielsen, where he led the modernization and cloud transformation of the company’s flagship audience measurement products.  

Brown has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Florida and a master’s of science in Management Information Systems also from the University of Florida.