Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> February 16, 2004

SCOT MCCUAIG – STIFEL, NICOLAUS & CO (SF)

SCOTT MCCUAIG joined Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated in January of 1998 and currently serves as the President and Co-Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining Stifel Nicolaus, Mr. McCuaig had been Managing Director, Director of Marketing, Regional Sales Manager, and a member of the Board of Directors for Robert W. Baird & Co. and Baird Financial Corporation. He began his career as a retail Investment Executive and Branch Manager at The Milwaukee Company. He later become Senior Vice President and a member of the Executive Committee prior to joining the Baird organization in June 1988. Mr. McCuaig is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin (Oshkosh and Milwaukee), where he received both a BS and MBA. Mr. McCuaig is also a graduate of the Securities Industry Institute at Wharton University of Pennsylvania. Profile
TWST: Could you slice your business segments as you report them and give

us an overview of them?

Mr. McCuaig: First, to give a little bit of history, the firm was

established in 1890 and has