Scotty Reiss

Scotty Reiss

Journalist, entrepreneur and mom. Expertise includes new cars, family cars, 3-row SUVs, child passenger car seats and automotive careers and culture. A World Car Awards juror and member of the steering committee, Scotty likes to say the automotive business found her, rather than her finding it. But recognizing the opportunity to give voice to powerful female consumers and create a voice to match their spending power, her mission became to empower women as car buyers and owners. A career-long journalist, she has written for the New York Times, Town & Country, Adweek and co-authored the book Stew Leonard, My Story, a biography of the founder of the iconic grocery company Stew Leonard’s. Her love of cars started when her father insisted she learn to change the oil in her MG Midget, but now it mostly plays out in the many road trips taken with her family.
Ford Panel

What Drives Her: Sheryl Connelly, Ford’s Futurist

  Sheryl Connelly may have the coolest job in the world: She predicts the future. Not in a crystal-ball, $20 to read your future type of way, but in a know-what-the-experts-know, understand-the-consumer, anticipate-coming-trends kind of way. And, her job helped…