Economics and Finance Newsletters
Spring 2019
Alumni in the News
Currently living in Weldon Springs, MO, Scott Thoma is pretty familiar with the ins and outs of SIUE. He graduated with his BS in Business Administration in 1998 and his MS in Econ/Finance in 2000.
Today he’s working as a Principal for Edward Jones and also leads one of the firm’s Research Department’s Strategy Teams. There, he was named as the co-chair of the Investment Policy Committee. Thoma was also named a St. Louis Business Journal's 40 under 40 in 2016. Even amongst those accomplishments, Thoma cites his role as a husband and father as his most important achievement.
Thoma still takes time to give back to SIUE as he serves on the advisory board for the School of Business. He manages this in between his work on the board for CharacterPlus and his role as a deacon at Waypoint Church.
When asked what he enjoyed most about his time at SIUE, Thoma honed in on the relationships he’d made along the way: “I still keep in contact with several of my professors who were instrumental in preparing me for the career I have today.” There was one more relationship Thoma said he was thankful to SIUE for: he met his wife at Tower Lake (now Cougar Village) building 522.
