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Lighting the Way for Peers

The crowd of Vols quickly became a frenzy as Smoky XI jumped through the Power T. The crowd of Vols quickly became a frenzy as Smoky XI jumped through the Power T.In the three years he’s spent on Rocky Top, Scotty Brown (Class of 2027)—a finance major in the Haslam College of Business—has poured himself into every opportunity possible, and he hopes to one day give back to the university for all it has given him.

He’s a year away from graduating and starting a full-time career in investment banking, but he’s already started using his experiences to help those around him.

Brown grew up in Signal Mountain, Tennessee, and didn’t necessarily picture himself at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He applied for the Haslam Leadership Scholars program anyway and had a change of heart after he visited campus for the program’s selection weekend.

“I really fell in love with UT,” says Brown. “I got a call from Mr. and Mrs. Haslam after that weekend and my decision was made.”

In his time at UT, Brown has studied abroad in Cuba through the Haslam College of Business and in Rwanda and Kenya through the Haslam Leadership Scholars program, which was founded in 2008 with a generous gift from the Haslam family. He completed a congressional internship with US Senator Bill Hagerty, and he most recently interned with Nashville-based Pinnacle Financial Partners in Charlotte, North Carolina, as an Investment Banking Summer Analyst.

This summer, Brown will be an investment banking intern for J.P. Morgan in New York City, one of the first students from UT to do so in more than six years.