 Born Washington, D.C., Scott went to college at Wesleyan
University where he obtained a B.A. in 1980. While there, he played with various jazz
groups and campus bands. From 1981-1985, while a Chemistry graduate student at U.C.
Berkeley, he played with the U.C. Berkeley Jazz Ensemble (toured Japan), the Rich
Martini Orchestra (a 10-piece big band) in San Francisco, and formed the Scott
Hecker Jazz Quartet, which performed regularly at The Lobby in Oakland. Scott
received his Ph.D. in Chemistry at U.C. Berkeley in 1985.
After 1985, Scott moved to Connecticut, where he worked for Pfizer as a medicinal
chemist from 1985 to 1993. For several of these years, he played with the Executive Red
Coats, a big band based in New Haven, Connecticut. He moved back to California in December 1993 to join
a start-up company, Microcide Pharmaceuticals, now Essential Therapeutics, where he
was
Vice President of Medicinal Chemistry. Essential Therapeutics’ mission is to discover new antibiotics. Having played recently with the Foothill
Jazz Band, Scott reports joining Full Spectrum Jazz as one of his musical
achievements.
An avid tennis player, Scott now resides in San Diego with his wife, Gail Brady, and
their daughter, Claire, and son, Niall.
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