Struan W. Scott
Senior Client Partner

Mr. Scott is a Senior Client Partner in the Los Angeles and Melbourne offices of Morgan Samuels and is responsible for managing relationships with some of the firm's major private equity and corporate clients. Mr. Scott is one of our longest serving search consultants and has held a variety of search positions as well as serving as Morgan Samuels's Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Scott works with some of the biggest and best known private equity companies to upgrade talent within their portfolio companies. He is adept at leveraging firm's resources to solve human capital challenges across a wide range of functions and industries. In addition, he co-leads our financial services, consumer goods, and retail practices and leads our healthcare practice. Prior to joining Morgan Samuels, Mr. Scott was a business strategy advisor at Bain & Company, Inc.

At Morgan Samuels, Mr. Scott is continually exploring new ways to leverage analysis of his client's customers, competitors and industry trends to drive identification and evaluation of talent. He partners best with companies that are highly analytical and process driven and interested in long term collaborative relationships.

At Bain & Company, Mr. Scott assisted clients in many industries including financial services, semiconductors, non profit, consumer electronics, IT services, telecommunications, retail, health & nutrition, manufacturing and entertainment. Mr. Scott successfully advised clients on many different issues including product line review, market entry strategy, supply chain design, process reengineering and cost reduction. Mr. Scott directly improved client's profitability, with benefits including revenue enhancement (up to $200M growth) and cost reduction (up to $150M reduction). Additionally, clients benefited from lead-time reductions of up to 75% and product availability improvements of up to 55%. Mr. Scott's career at Bain was strongly international in flavor; during his consulting career, Mr. Scott was based in each of Bain's San Francisco, Sydney, Johannesburg, London, Paris and Los Angeles' offices.

Mr. Scott holds a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering degree from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.