H&R Block has hired Scott Manuel in the newly created role of chief strategy and operations officer.
Besides being in charge of strategy, Manuel will be “helping to build deeper capabilities in AI, productivity, client support and real estate,” the tax services company said in a prepared statement.
Manuel came to Block after spending two years at Triangle Technology where he was president from November 2022 through May of this year. Before that, he worked at McClatchy from October 2017 through November 2020.
He was employed for slightly more than seven years at Thomson Reuters. At that company, his titles included VP of global data center operations from January 2012 through February 2013 and then Manuel was VP and head of strategic product management and delivery from February 2013 through September 2017.
Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards. Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals. He has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County New Jersey prior to that. A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism, Bob is a native of Madison, Ind