Yale School of Management - Alumni Leaders

"The network that I developed while at Yale SOM never ceases to amaze me in the ways that it has been important to my career and even in just making friends. Sometimes in the most unlikely of places, a fellow graduate who I know — and often someone who I am meeting for the first time — will be important to a business deal that I am doing. This has been true especially while I have lived in Japan, Germany, and now London."

Scott Moeller is the director and founder of the M&A Research Centre at Cass Business School where he also an honorary visiting professor and teaches the ‘Mergers & Acquisitions’ and ‘Business Intelligence & Social Networking’ courses in the MBA and MSc programmes. Until recently, he was CEO and director of Executive Education at Cass. He has also been a visiting lecturer on the MBA and MSc programmes at the Saïd Business School at Oxford University and at the Tanaka Business School at Imperial College (London) where he has taught Corporate Entrepreneurship.

His published work includes case studies of a number of important M&A deals, including Santander-Abbey, Deutsche Bank-Bankers Trust, Manchester United, Marks & Spencer, Mitsubishi Finance-United Finance Japan, and London Stock Exchange-Deutsche Börse. His book of case studies was published in February 2006 by Pearson (now in a second 2007 edition), and second book (published in August 2008 by John Wiley & Sons and co-authored with Dr. Chris Brady) is entitled: Intelligent M&A: Navigating the Mergers and Acquisitions Minefield and which discusses the role of business intelligence in major financial restructurings and received a number of awards. Scott’s most recent book, also published by John Wiley & Sons, was published in July 2009: Surviving M&A: Making the Most of Your Company Being Acquired.

Scott brings a track record in global strategic investments and finance through senior positions held in the financial services and consulting industries since the late 1970’s. During his six years at Deutsche Bank, Scott was global head of the bank’s corporate venture capital unit, managing director of the Investment Bank's Global eBusiness Division, and managing director of the department responsible for world-wide strategy and new business acquisitions.

Prior to Deutsche Bank, Scott worked first at Booz Allen & Hamilton Management Consultants (now Booz & Co) for over 5 years and then at Morgan Stanley for over 12 years in New York, Japan, and most recently as co-manager and then member of the board of Morgan Stanley Bank AG in Germany. Scott has held a number of other board seats throughout Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas and is currently a non-executive director on several boards. He is a dual national (American / British) and was raised in the USA and Belgium. He graduated from Yale College (BA cum laude with departmental honours), Yale Graduate School (MA) and the Yale School of Management (MBA).