Robert G. Scott
Advisory Director
Morgan Stanley
Bob 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 continues as an advisory director of the company. Mr. Scott was a member of the Morgan Stanley senior management team, which structured the 1997 merger with Dean Witter Discover, as well as head of the Morgan Stanley transition team for the merger. Mr. Scott was named CFO of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter at the time of the merger and became president and chief operating officer in 2001.
Mr. Scott joined Morgan Stanley in 1970 and became a managing director in 1979. Prior to the merger, Mr. Scott 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. Mr. Scott is currently a director of Genpact, a privately owned business process outsourcing company located in India. He is a member of the board of trustees of the New York Presbyterian Hospital and chairman of the American Museum of Fly Fishing. Mr. Scott and his wife, Karen, are trustees of the Naples Children and Education Foundation. Mr. Scott 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., a publicly traded stock exchange that merged with the NYSE in 2006. He is a former trustee of the Japan Society 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 has five children. Mr. Scott and his wife, Karen, live in New York City. He is an avid fly fisherman, golfer and downhill skier.
