Bio

Scott is a senior executive with many years experience in a wide range of business areas, including general management, sales and marketing, corporate development, strategic planning and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining Cobalt Capital, Scott was Vice President and General Manager of the Specialty Home Products business of CFM Corporation, a key operating division responsible for all sales, marketing and customer-fulfillment activities relating to the core specialty dealer/distributor selling channel. Prior to this, Scott led and managed all company-wide corporate development activities as Vice President, Corporate Development, with a focus on acquisitions aimed at product line and selling channel extensions, technology acquisition and operational improvement. He also served as Vice President and General Counsel, where he managed a complex portfolio of legal matters, including litigation, securities law and corporate governance matters, product liability management and an extensive array of intellectual property. In these varying roles, Scott was a key participant in the acquisition program that grew this enterprise from a small regional manufacturer with one plant and sales of $30 million to an integrated consumer products company with ten facilities in Canada, the US, Mexico and the UK and sales of over $600 million. Scott began his career as a lawyer at one of Canada’s leading national law firms, where his practice focused extensively on corporate/commercial law, securities law and mergers and acquisitions. Scott’s diverse experience gives him a unique insight into the business growth process, its key strategic drivers, the systems necessary to achieve and manage this growth, the transaction structures that effectively align stakeholder interests and the operating and legal mechanics of making these ideas reality.