Firm Professionals

Lauren C. Templeton, Founder and Principal

Lauren C. Templeton is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Templeton & Phillips Capital Management, LLC. In addition to her leadership role at the firm, Ms. Templeton also serves on the Board of Directors for publicly traded corporations including, Fairfax Financial Holdings, Ltd., Fairfax India Holdings, Ltd., and Canadian Solar Inc. Prior to founding the firm in 2001, Lauren was employed with Morgan Stanley, Homrich Berg, and New Providence Advisors, a hedge fund management company, based in Atlanta, GA. Also in 2001, Lauren founded and served as President of the Southeastern Hedge Fund Association, (known today as the Southeastern Alternative Funds Association). Ms. Templeton is active in the non-profit community, serving as Chair for the Board of Trustees of the John Templeton Foundation (Conshohocken, PA), and as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Baylor School (Chattanooga, TN). Lauren also served on the endowment committee of Rotary International from 2010-2016. Ms. Templeton received her B.A. in Economics from Sewanee: The University of the South, and she is the co-author of the international best-seller Investing the Templeton Way (McGraw-Hill, 2008).

D. Scott Phillips Jr., Principal

Scott Phillips is a Principal and Chief Investment Officer at Templeton and Phillips Capital Management, LLC. Mr. Phillips also serves as Managing Member to the Templeton and Phillips Partners Fund, LLC. Prior to joining Templeton and Phillips, Mr. Phillips owned and operated Cumberland Capital, a firm providing equity research to global and emerging market hedge funds. Before founding Cumberland, Scott was employed as a research analyst at hedge fund management company Green Cay Asset Management, where he served as the lead analyst on a hard assets fund. Prior to joining Green Cay, he was employed as a research associate at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey (and its predecessor firms: SunTrust Equitable Securities, and Robinson Humphrey). Mr. Phillips serves on the Finance Committee for the John Templeton Foundation, the Audit Committee for Templeton Foundation, Inc. and as Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Templeton Foundation, Inc. Scott is the author or coauthor of three investment related books, including Investing the Templeton Way (McGraw Hill, 2008), Buying at the Point of Maximum Pessimism (Pearson, 2010), and coauthor to the revised edition of The Templeton Touch (Templeton Press, 2012). Mr. Phillips received his B.A. from Sewanee: The University of the South.