Scott Cooke
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Executive Advisor
Toyota Financial Services
Scott Cooke is executive advisor, supporting the Americas Oceania Region of Toyota Financial Services Corporation. Cooke previously served as president and CEO of Toyota Financial Services (TFS), overseeing the entirety of the company’s operational and financial activities in the United States.
Prior to that, Cooke served as TFS senior vice president and chief financial officer. In that role, Cooke was responsible for the overall financial management of the company. This included leading the teams for TFS accounting, TFS finance, TFS and Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) treasury, as well as the TFS competitiveness and mergers & acquisitions functions. Before that, Cooke was group vice president of risk, dealer credit, and information security. He served as chief risk officer for the TFS Americas Region, responsible for establishing and implementing risk-based policies and metrics for TFS affiliates in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela.
Cooke joined TFS in June 2003 as director of market risk, economic capital, and international treasury, responsible for the oversight of interest rate, liquidity, basis, and counterparty credit risk. He became head of strategic planning and competitive intelligence, and was later promoted to corporate manager, business intelligence. He subsequently worked for the office of the chief information officer, and then served as corporate manager in dealer credit. In addition, Cooke was corporate manager of product planning for Toyota Motor Sales.
Cooke earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and MBA from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.