Robert G. Scott
Former President and Chief Operating Officer
Morgan Stanley
Robert Scott was president and COO of Morgan Stanley, a global financial services firm
with leading franchises in institutional and retail securities and credit services until
December 2003, and he continues as an advisory director of the company. Mr. Scott was
named CFO of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter at the time of the merger between Morgan
Stanley and Dean Witter and became president and COO in 2001.
Mr. Scott joined Morgan Stanley in 1970 and became a managing director in 1979.
Prior to the merger, he held a number of positions with worldwide responsibility, including
director of investment banking from 1994 to 1996, director of corporate finance from
1992 to 1994, and director of capital market services from 1985 to 1992.
Mr. Scott is a trustee of Williams College. He is currently a director of Genpact,
a publicly traded business process outsourcing company located in India, and a member
of the board of trustees of the New York Presbyterian Hospital. Mr. Scott and his wife,
Karen, are trustees of the Naples Children and Education Foundation. He is a former
executive vice president of the Greater New York Council of the Boy Scouts of America
(1992 to 2004) and was a director of Archipelago Inc., an electronic stock exchange that
merged with the NYSE in 2006. He is a former trustee of the Japan Society, former chairman
of the American Museum of Fly Fishing, and a former trustee and chairman (1984 to 2004)
of The Seeing Eye Inc.
Mr. Scott was born in Montclair, New Jersey, in 1946. He received his BA in economics
from Williams College in 1968 and his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business
in 1970.
Mr. Scott and his wife, Karen, live in Naples, Florida, and have five children. He is an avid
fly fisherman, golfer, and downhill skier.