Scott Phillips is a Principal and the Chief Investment Officer at Templeton and Phillips Capital Management, LLC. Mr. Phillips also serves as Managing Member to the Templeton and Phillips Partners Fund, LLC. Prior to joining Templeton and Phillips, he owned and operated Cumberland Capital, a firm providing equity research to global and emerging market hedge funds. Before founding Cumberland, he was employed as a research analyst at hedge fund management company Green Cay Asset Management, where he served as the lead analyst on a hard assets fund. Prior to joining Green Cay, he was employed as a research associate at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey and its predecessor firms: SunTrust Equitable Securities and Robinson Humphrey.
Mr. Phillips is the author or coauthor of three investment-related books, including Investing the Templeton Way(McGraw Hill, 2008), Buying at the Point of Maximum Pessimism (Pearson, 2010), and coauthor of the revised edition of The Templeton Touch (Templeton Press, 2012). He received his B.A. from Sewanee: The University of the South.
Mr. Phillips serves on the Finance Committee and Investment Advisory Sub-Committee for the John Templeton Foundation. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees for Templeton Foundation, Inc. and on the Audit, Finance, and Executive Committees for Templeton Foundation, Inc. Mr. Phillips is a Member of the John Templeton Foundation and the Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc., and a Member of the Board of Advisors of Templeton Religion Trust. He is married to Lauren Templeton, the grandniece of Sir John Templeton.
