Professional

A CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional, Scott prides himself in his tactful, analytical approach and his team’s commitment to provide outstanding service to each client. With his years of financial planning expertise, Scott has an extensive network of specialists in the areas of tax, legal and investment planning.

 

Family-Owned & Closely-Held Businesses

Scott helps family-owned & closely-held businesses protect and enjoy the fruits of their labor. Whether in manufacturing, construction, or another industry, Scott is passionate about being a resource to the generations that depend on the success of your business. Advising in business succession, executive benefit planning, retirement and estate planning, Scott and his team show business owners how all these pieces of a comprehensive financial plan impact their families, estate planning and wealth creation.

 

Healthcare Practitioners

We find that we can be a great resource to physicians. Juggling work responsibilities with family, social and a host of other commitments can be a daunting task. As you manage the day-to-day operations of your practice, we can provide strategy to mitigate risk, prepare for retirement, create tax efficient strategy and help to support succession planning for your business.

 

 Professionals Nearing Retirement

Taking the leap from a corporate salary to pension plans and investment distributions can be frightening, and many times confusing. While retirement is synonymous with freedom, it can often bring stress and uncertainty. Scott and his team help simplify the retirement planning process, creating an income plan that gives you confidence in living the life of your dreams.

Personal

Scott is originally from Hartsville, South Carolina. He attended the University of South Carolina and graduated in 2009, at which time he joined Northwestern Mutual. Scott is married to Kayla Hildreth Gupton. He is actively involved with his alma mater, serving as the past President of the Young Alumni Council for the University of South Carolina Alumni Association. He is also passionate about CAMP KEMO, where he serves as a summer camp counselor. CAMP KEMO is designed to provide a medically safe, fun environment for families and young patients navigating childhood cancer and blood disorders.

Lending a hand in my community.

As part of Northwestern Mutual, I'm proud to help accelerate the search for better childhood cancer treatments while supporting families undergoing treatment, and survivors from late effects. Here are some of the organizations we partner with:

Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer (ALSF)

ALSF funds cancer research, raises awareness, and supports the families of children with cancer. Since 2012, Northwestern Mutual, its employees, and financial professionals like me have donated more than $20 million to support ALSF and fund over 400,000 research hours.

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Beads of Courage

Beads of Courage is an art-in-medicine program that helps kids with cancer tell their unique treatment story through colorful beads that are symbols of their courage.

CAMP KEMO

CAMP KEMO is designed to provide a medically safe, fun environment for families and young patients navigating childhood cancer and blood disorders.

Camp Kemo

How Northwestern Mutual helps you live the life you want.

When people feel better about their money, good things happen—they become more confident and feel more secure. For more than 160 years, Northwestern Mutual has helped people achieve the financial flexibility they need to live more and worry less.

Being a mutual company means Northwestern Mutual reports to its clients, not Wall Street. They don't believe in chasing fads or taking undue risk for short-term gains. Instead, they take a long-term approach—both in the way we help people plan to reach their goals, and in the way they do business. This has served their clients (and mine) well through all kinds of economic ups and downs, including wars, recessions, even the recent pandemic.

It's why I'm happy to be part of a company that's in it for the long-haul and prioritizes clients over profit.

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