Mr. Scott is the CFO and a Principal in the Beverly Hills office of Morgan Samuels Company and is responsible for managing relationships with some of the firm’s major clients. Prior to joining Morgan Samuels Company, Mr. Scott was a business strategy advisor at Bain & Company, Inc.

Leveraging his experience as a strategy consultant, Mr. Scott focuses on advising private equity, venture capital, industrial, manufacturing, technology, professional services, distribution, health care, consumer goods, and financial services clients on human capital issues. His particular areas of expertise are general management (CEO, President), operations, sales & marketing, finance, business development, and strategic planning assignments. At Morgan Samuels Company, 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, 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.