Scott Parsons, Delta Strategy Group Founding Partner

Scott Parsons is a Founding Partner and Managing Partner of Delta Strategy Group, a consulting firm based in Washington, D.C., that specializes in matters related to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).  Parsons moved to Washington, DC, in 1997 to work for Congressman Pickering from Mississippi as the lead staff member for all agriculture and agricultural-related issues, and later as Legislative Director.  After working for Congressman Pickering for two years, Parsons was hired as the Policy Advisor to Commissioner James E. Newsome at the CFTC.

​Two years later, when Commissioner Newsome was named Chairman of the CFTC, Parsons was named Chief of Staff and Chief Operating Officer for the Commission. At 27 years of age, he became the youngest person to carry the Chief of Staff title at the CFTC and the first COO in the Commission’s history.  Parsons was also the CFTC staff representative to the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, which is principally comprised of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Chairman of the SEC, and the Chairman of the CFTC.

​After six years of service at the CFTC, Parsons left the federal government to become Executive Vice President at the MFA, a Washington-based trade association representing the interests of hedge funds/hedge fund managers, including Commodity Pool Operators and Commodity Trading Advisors. 

In July of 2006, Parsons left MFA to form his own government affairs company, Parsons Strategies. With the addition of Jim Newsome, former NYMEX CEO and CFTC Chairman, Delta Strategy Group was formed in 2010 and has been serving clients for fifteen years.