Chief Operating Officer Cheryl Scott oversees the foundation's Legal, Security, Human Resources, Foundation Advocacy, Finance & Administration, Financial Analysis & Planning, Information Technology, and Impact Assessment & Improvement teams. She joined the foundation in June 2006.

Before joining the foundation, Scott served for seven years as president and CEO of the Seattle-based Group Health Cooperative, one of the oldest and most respected integrated health-care systems in the U.S. She had also served as that organization’s executive vice president and chief operating officer. Scott is also a clinical professor in the Department of Health Services at the University of Washington, where she teaches a graduate seminar on leading complex adaptive systems. Her family has lived in the Seattle area for four generations.