Scott McKechnie | CEO, GLOBAL
PLAI PTE LTD

FROM INTERNATIONAL CRICKET... TO BUILDING AN 8-FIGURE COMPANY IN 5 YEARS! Scott McKechnie is an award-winning founder & high-performance entrepreneur who thrives on turning disruption into success. After representing in almost 100 international cricket matches, representing against the biggest teams in the world to televised audiences in the hundreds-of-millions, he founded PLAI, a world leading sports club administration app. In five years, he scaled PLAI into 175 global markets, raising seven-figure non-venture capital to establish an eight-figure valuation. With more than 40,000 global customers spanning Los Angeles to Auckland and just about everywhere in-between, he shares a candid and practical roadmap to launch, scale & raise capital for your business. A Great British Entrepreneur of the Year finalist (2025), Scott is also the upcoming author of The Start-Up Launch Manual (launching 2026), a definitive guide for founders preparing to raise capital. This will be driven through his personal brand (@thescaleupguy) that goes LIVE on 1st January 2026.

Appearances:

Accounting & Business Show Asia 2025 - Day 2 @ 13:30

Keynote Presentation: Raise, Scale, Repeat: What business leaders need to win in every phase

By attending this session, you will gain insights into:

Identifying the key milestones and challenges at each stage of business growth, from startup to scale-up.
Developing a repeatable playbook for raising capital and attracting the right investors.
Building scalable systems and processes that support rapid expansion without sacrificing quality.
Learning from real-world case studies of successful business leaders who have mastered the art of scaling.

Scott McKechnie, CEO, GLOBAL, PLAI PTE LTD