Scott joins our leadership team following a 35 year career with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, including overseeing the Agency’s Consumer Compliance Examination Program in Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan for the past 25 years as Field Supervisor. Scott began his regulatory career in 1987 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota where he obtained dual commissions in Risk Management and Consumer Compliance and served as a Senior Examiner-in-Charge for complex and problem bank’s for the first 10 years of his career. Responsibilities included serving as examiner-in- charge at adversely rated financial institutions in the Midwest and East Coast during past financial crises, and also leading examination strategies at nationwide credit card lenders headquartered in South Dakota. In 1997, Scott was promoted to Field Supervisor for the Division of Depositor and Consumer Protection, a position he held until retirement in 2022.
Scott received numerous honors during his tenure with the FDIC including Employee of the Year, Manager of the Year, and the Chairman’s Excellence Award. Scott also earned his Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager from the American Bankers Association in 1998 and has conducted many training and outreach events in conjunction with banker trade organizations in developing effective compliance management systems to improve a financial institution’s overall adherence with governing consumer laws and regulations.