Scott Syphax is the President and CEO of Nehemiah Corporation of California (NCC), a Sacramento based non-profit founded in 1997. NCC is one of the largest non-profit community development organizations in the country. Previously, Scott was Manager of Public Affairs for Eli Lilly & Company.

Scott earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Business with an emphasis on Real Estate Development and Land Use Planning from the California State University, Sacramento. Syphax was a 1992 Coro Fellow with the Coro Foundation and participated in the Coro National Board of Governors summer program in Washington, D.C. as a National Fellow. Additionally, Scott is a graduate of the Sacramento Entrepreneurship Academy.

Scott has recently been appointed as a Vice Chairman of the Kennedy Center Fund Board in Washington. D.C. and is currently the Chairman of the Financial Solvency Board for the California State Department of Managed Health Care, a member of the Board of Trustees for the California Health Professions Foundation, and Commissioner for the Sacramento County Civil Service Commission. Mr. Syphax is Past chairman of both the Sacramento Downtown Partnership and Franklin-Laguna Planning Advisory Council.

Scott lives in Elk Grove with his wife and their three children.

Submitted by Laney Whitcanack (StL FP '98)