Office of Thrift Supervision
Scott M. Polakoff, Senior Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer
Scott Polakoff joined the OTS in November 2005 after serving 22 years with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
Polakoff is a career bank examiner, starting his career with the FDIC in 1983 as a trainee bank examiner in Tulsa, Okla. He assumed positions of increasing responsibility, including Review Examiner (Dallas Regional Office), Assistant to the Executive Director (Washington, D.C.), Assistant Regional Director (Atlanta Regional Office) and Deputy Regional Director (New York Region). Before joining the OTS, he served as Regional Director in the Chicago Regional Office.
In September 2005, Polakoff completed a one-year assignment at the Boeing Company under an Executive Rotation Program. He focused on leadership development within Boeing's Human Resource function. He performed assignments at Boeing's Leadership Center and worked for extended periods for Boeing's Employee and Labor Relations Unit and the Executive Compensation and Benefits Unit.
Polakoff is a 1992 graduate of the Southwestern Graduate School of Banking at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, a 1998 graduate of the Federal Executive Institute's "Leadership for a Democratic Society" in Charlottesville, Va., and a 2002 graduate of the Management Certificate Program at Loyola University in Chicago, Ill. He received his accounting degree from West Chester University in West Chester, Pa.
