Scott serves as the CEO of Civic Financial. He started his career as a Northwestern Mutual college intern while at Amherst College. Scott began building his business while completing coursework to become one of the youngest CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional at age 22. After graduating, he led the company in production within his cohort and obtained further specialty designations and education surrounding advanced areas of planning. In the years since, Scott re-branded the firm to Civic Financial, opened a second detached office in Boston’s Back Bay, and has built one of the largest teams within Northwestern Mutual. He is a sought-after industry speaker for his quick success in establishing enterprise value and his creative work with sophisticated clientele.
In leading the firm, Scott works most closely with fellow founding partner Grant Parisi, whom he has known since childhood. Grant joined forces with Scott professionally upon graduation from Harvard; he and Scott believe strongly in education, and work with C-suite executives and high net worth clients principally in the private equity, hedge fund, and biotech spaces on consultative, strategic planning.
Scott lives in Boston’s South End with his fiancée Lizzy. He attended Noble and Greenough High School and then Amherst College, where he met Lizzy. At Amherst, Scott wrote an honors thesis in psychology while pursuing his interests in mathematics and economics and captaining the varsity squash team. Many of his clients are professionals from both of his alma maters. Scott is an active squash player and triathlete. He enjoys cooking and traveling with Lizzy and is a proud uncle to three nephews. A nerd at heart, Scott will gladly accept a challenge to chess, backgammon, Scrabble, Settlers of Catan—pick your poison!
Civic Financial is a sponsor of urban squash foundation SquashBusters. Scott captains the "Racqueteers" squash team in the SquashBusters annual derby, which raised over $1.4 million in 2019 to help bring higher educational opportunities to underprivileged teenagers. Scott also joins Northwestern Mutual every year to raise money for Alex's Lemonade Stand in support of childhood cancer research.