Scott Parsons
Managing Partner
Scott Parsons is a Founding Partner and Managing Partner of Delta Strategy Group. Parsons moved to Washington, DC, in 1997 to work for newly elected Congressman Chip Pickering from Mississippi. Parsons was the lead staff member for all agricultural and agricultural-related issues. Parsons was promoted to Legislative Director. After serving Mr. Pickering for two years, Parsons was hired as the Policy Advisor to newly-appointed Commissioner James E. Newsome at the CFTC.
Newsome was later confirmed as CFTC Chairman, and Parsons was named Chief of Staff and Chief Operating Officer for the Commission. In these roles, Parsons was responsible for managing the Commission’s daily operations, overseeing a staff of 500 located in five offices across the country, administering the agency’s budget of roughly $100 million, crafting the Commission’s policy objectives and communicating those objectives to all interested parties, including the regulated industry, Congress, and other regulatory bodies around the world, including the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets.
After six years of CFTC service, Parsons left the federal government to become Executive Vice President at the MFA, a Washington-based trade association. Parsons’ primary focus at MFA was to create a strategic plan for growing the association’s staff and level of service to its members, as well as to raise the profile in Washington and the overall membership of the group. All of these were accomplished during his tenure.
In July of 2006, Parsons left MFA to form his own government affairs company, Parsons Strategies. With the addition of Jim Newsome, former NYMEX CEO and CFTC Chairman, in early 2010, Delta Strategy Group was formed and remains active today, representing clients before the regulatory and legislative bodies of the United States government.