Scott Balice

Scott Balice Strategies LLC

Type	Private
Industry	Public and corporate finance
Founded	Chicago, Illinois, USA (2003)
Headquarters	Chicago, Illinois
Key people	Lois Scott, President Dean Balice, Senior Managing Director
Products	Financial advisory and strategy services
Website	[3]

Scott Balice Strategies, LLC, or Scott Balice, is a financial advisory firm headquartered in Chicago. The firm was founded in 2003 and is now one of the largest woman-owned financial advisory firms in the nation. It is ranked overall as the top financial advisory firm in Illinois, fourth in the Midwest, and 15th in the nation for 2008 according to the annual Thomson Reuters ssurvey.

Scott Balice provides strategic financial services to governments, corporations, and nonprofit organizations worldwide. It maintains offices in Chicago, New York City, New Jersey, and Alaska, providing services in five core areas: capital markets, swaps and derivatives, public-private partnerships, arbitrage rebate, and financial advisory services.

Founders

• Lois Scott, Scott Balice co-founder and president, is also the co-founder of Women in Public Finance Conference, board member of National Louis University, policy committee member of Children's Memorial Hospital, and treasurer of Near North Montessori School. Scott was a White House Fellow under President Bill Clinton and is a past board or committee member for Leadership Greater Chicago, the White House Fellows Association, the Illinois Facilities Fund, the City Lit Theater Company, North Avenue Day Nursery, and the Jungman YMCA Partnership.

• Dean Balice, the co-founder and senior managing director, served previously as head of the National Banking Group for Crédit Agricole USA. He is also a member of with the Economic Club of Chicago, the Chicago Club, and the University Club of Chicago, as well as a past member of the Museum of Broadcast Communications, and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.