Scott Simkus

Background

About Scott Simkus

Scott Simkus has been part of the West Suburban Limousine family since 2002. He began his career as an Executive Chauffeur, moved up to a Lead Dispatcher and was eventually promoted to VP of Operations at the beginning of 2014. Prior to joining the WSL team, Simkus had worked as an account executive with the Minolta Corporation (Downers Grove) and Monarch Marketing Group (Chicago), before starting his own consulting firm, Main Street Marketing. He’d also worked as a free-lance writer and is the author of one book, Outsider Baseball: The Weird World of Hardball on the Fringe, published by Chicago Review Press in 2014. He has been interviewed, or written about, by WGN-TV and Radio, NPR, Sports Illustrated, the USA Today, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Los Angeles Times, among others. He published an online magazine devoted to baseball history for three years, the archives of which have been preserved in the National Baseball Library at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. Simkus attended Western Illinois University, but left early to found Prestige Cleaning, Inc, a small cleaning service which he owned and operated for five years. He is married with two children.