Scott D. McLeod

Scott D. McLeod graduated from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California in 1995 with a BS in Business with an emphasis in Finance. After moving to New York City, Mr. McLeod worked for Merrill Lynch in the CICG Technology finance department. While at Merrill Lynch between 1996 and 2000, Mr. McLeod worked on decimalization of the stock market prices, creation of the Euro, and the Y2K technology financial issues. Duties ranged from managing the accrual spreadsheet and the financial statements for the division to working with the accounting department. Mr. McLeod then took a job at CMGI’s subsidiary EngageMedia.com as the New England sales representative for the travel division. While at Engage Media, Mr. McLeod moved to San Francisco to lead the west coast sales division for the company. In 2005 Mr. McLeod co-founded Nevada McLeod Group (NMG) which is a privately held investment firm in Reno, Nevada. At NMG, Mr. McLeod is responsible for trading, researching new ideas and portfolio management for all of their clients.

Between 2011 and 2013, Mr. McLeod worked with La Plata River Partners as a trader for the Kudu hedge fund. In 2014, Mr. McLeod’s partner at NMG retired and became chairman of the company. Mr. McLeod took over the day to day operations as the President. His duties now include portfolio management, client retention, accounting, trading and research. For the past 10 years Mr. McLeod has been a guest lecturer to the Finance 430 investment class at the University of Nevada- Reno.