Scott Woods is a portfolio manager within the Global equities team and has been lead manager of the Threadneedle Global Smaller Companies strategy since April 2019. Scott joined the Global equities team in 2015 as an equity analyst with responsibility for researching small cap companies, focusing in particular on US small caps. He was subsequently made deputy portfolio manager on both the Threadneedle Global Smaller Companies strategy and the Threadneedle US Smaller Companies strategy.
Before joining the company, Scott spent three years with Ecclesiastical Investment Management, an SRI-focused asset manager, where he worked as an investment analyst within the global equities team.
Scott holds a Masters degree in Chemistry from the University of Oxford. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and the Investment Management Certificate.