Scott Borchetta

Scott Borchetta (born July 3, 1962) is an American record executive and founder of the Big Machine Label Group.

In 1978, when Borchetta was 16, his father moved to Nashville to start his own independent record promotion company.

While working with his father, Borchetta learned about the music industry and how it operates, and used this knowledge to pursue jobs at record labels.

On June 30, 2019, Ithaca Holdings, run by Scooter Braun, bought Big Machine Records, with Borchetta staying on as CEO.

[7] Swift voiced her frustrations in a Tumblr post, saying to have been trying to buy the masters for years and described Braun as an "incessant, manipulative bully".

[11] In its 14th season, Borchetta became the senior mentor of the reality music competition American Idol.

[17][18] He was inducted into the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway Hall of Fame in 2020; his SuperTruck crew chief James Buttrey was enshrined a year later.

[22][23] Borchetta acts as the chief promoter of the event, which moved the Nashville Superspeedway from 2024 onward after development eliminated the downtown-Nashville street circuit.

In 2022, Borchetta fielded his car for a variety of drivers, these being Marco Andretti, Jade Buford, Ross Chastain, Austin Dillon, Ty Dillon, Kaz Grala, Parker Kligerman, Tyler Reddick, Nick Sanchez, and Ricky Stenhouse Jr..[24] In 2023, Kligerman returned to the team to run the full schedule, making the playoffs.