Executive Profile: Brian Scott
Monday, October 8, 2012
RESUME
Name: Brian Scott.
Company: AMN Healthcare Inc.
Titles: Chief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer and Treasurer.
No. of employees: 1,600 corporate employees; more than 7,000 including staffed health-care professionals.
Education: B.S. in accounting, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, 1993; Master of Business Administration, University of Texas at Austin, 1998.
Current residence: La Jolla.
Family: Wife, Adriana; daughters, Gabriela and Sophia.
Brian Scott is the chief financial officer of AMN Healthcare, an innovator in health-care workforce solutions, including managed services programs, recruitment process outsourcing, and the placement of health-care professionals into temporary and permanent positions. AMN’s clients include acute-care hospitals, clinics, physician practice groups and other health-care settings throughout the country. AMN was founded more than 20 years ago and is one of the largest local employers. Scott is a San Diego native and sits on the local boards of the YMCA and Big Brothers Big Sisters.
BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY
Essential business philosophy: Be passionate about what you do.
Best way to keep a competitive edge: Hire, empower, and retain the most talented team in your industry.
Guiding principles: Never compromise your ethics or core values.
Yardsticks of success: Industry leading profits, an engaged team, a restful night’s sleep.
Goals yet to be achieved: Work-life balance.
JUDGMENT CALLS
Best business decision: Joining AMN.
Worst business decision: Waiting to make a change that I knew was necessary.
Toughest business decision: Having to layoff talented employees during the last recession.
Biggest missed opportunity: Whenever I lose employees who have great long-term potential.
Mentor: Bary Bailey, our previous CFO: He was a contrarian who taught me to never stop challenging myself or our organization.
Word that describes you: Determined.
TRUE CONFESSIONS
What you like best about your job: The passion of the people I work with every day.
What you like least about your job: Meetings that take away time that could be spent in actions.
Pet peeves: Not taking the time to find the story behind the numbers.
Most important lesson learned: Never stop challenging yourself or others.
Three greatest passions: Family, running, and finding new passions.
PREDILECTIONS
Favorite quote: “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” — Benjamin Franklin.
Most influential book: Just finished the Steve Jobs biography.
Favorite status symbol: I try not to focus on them.
Favorite restaurant: Tapenade, La Jolla (my kids would say the same).
Favorite place for business meetings: My office; it saves time.
Favorite vacation spot: Beaver Creek, Colo., (will be Europe again once the kids are older).
Favorite way to spend time: With my family; traveling; running with my iPod.
