Professional Profile
Serving as president and principal broker for Overby, Inc. since 2003, Scott employs a distinctive blend of experienced real estate savvy and complex financial expertise to provide strategic consulting and brokerage services to commercial real estate investors and owners at all levels of complexity and experience.
Beginning a theme park career as a seasonal employee in 1986, Scott held a number of management positions at several parks including company-wide responsibilities for operational standardization Six Flags’ thirty-nine U.S. properties. The broad focus covering property operations and risk management combined with a detailed emphasis to the bottom line proved to be instrumental in Scott’s transition into commercial brokerage and development in 2003.
He earned the coveted CCIM (Certified Commercial Investment Member) designation in 2008 after successfully completing a process that ensures proficiency not only in theory, but also in practice and earned IREM’s CPM (Certified Property Manager) designation in 2020.
Scott has been honored annually for his sales and leasing volume including CoStar’s Power Broker Top Leasing Firm awards, Power Broker Top Sales Firm awards, Top Sales Broker awards, Top Office Leasing Broker awards and Top Industrial Leasing Broker awards. He was named 2017 REALTOR of the year by the Mississippi Commercial Association of REALTORS.
He remains active in a variety of professional, civic and cultural organizations and currently serves on the CCIM Board of Directors, Strategic Planning Committee, Finance Committee and is the 2025 Member Services Presidential Liaison. Scott is a past President for the CCIM Chapter of Mississippi and is a past President of Friends of Children’s Hospital. Scott has also held various board positions with the Central Mississippi MLS and Mississippi Commercial Association of REALTORS.
His wife Amanda oversees Overby Residential. They have two daughters - Isabella and Avery. His third child is a very energetic Vizsla named Peter Barker.