Scott Cooley

Scott founded Indevtech in 2001, one year out of Punahou ('00) and while still an undergraduate at UH Mānoa. (The degree came in 2005 — a Bachelor of Arts in Japanese, which makes more sense the longer you know him.) What started as a one-person shop helping Honolulu professional firms get more out of their technology has grown into a twelve-person team serving dozens of firms across the islands.

In Indevtech's EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) structure, Scott holds the Visionary role — focused on long-term strategy, partner-firm relationships, and the company's role in keeping world-class IT careers in Hawaii. Day-to-day operations are run by COO Kemis Hancock; new business development is led by Director of Growth and Partnerships Erin Lopez.

Two decades into serving a client base heavy with law firms, Scott went back to school to learn the other side of the table: a Master of Legal Studies from Pepperdine University's Rick J. Caruso School of Law, earned with honors in 2023, with concentrations in litigation and human resources. From there he began the JD at the University of Hawaii's William S. Richardson School of Law — and then walked away from it, when it became clear that AI was rewriting the legal profession faster than law school could teach it. He left to launch TechFuelAI, Indevtech's AI governance and advisory practice, to help partner firms navigate the change instead of being run over by it. He is accredited by the Hawaii State Bar Association as a CLE instructor — teaching lawyers about the technology remaking their field.

One more full circle worth drawing: Indevtech's first law firm client, back in 2009, is today the Chief Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court. We won't name him — this is Honolulu; you know who it is. And the law school Scott stepped away from is itself named for a Chief Justice, William S. Richardson. Some circles you draw on purpose. Some draw themselves.

In 2025, Indevtech was named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies and to Inc.'s Best Workplaces list — and made Best Workplaces again in 2026. Both years, the only Hawaii company on the list.

Scott is also the editor-in-chief of The Bishop Street Letter, Indevtech's quarterly publication — essays, company news, and notes on technology and the long view, edited from the corner of Bishop and Queen.

Off the clock: a jazz drummer since middle school, with a Gretsch bop kit and a recording studio where the master bedroom used to be. A returning golfer carrying a 30 handicap — an honest 30. And five months into a 200-year project growing bonsai. They're ficus. They live on his desk. He hasn't killed one yet. When he's not doing any of that, he's with his family.