Robert Scott

Rowing career Club and state rowing Scott's senior club rowing was initially from the Swan River Rowing Club in Perth

His first state representative selection came in the Western Australian youth eight selected to compete for the Noel Wilkinson Trophy at the 1988 Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. He stroked that crew. In 1989 Scott was selected in the West Australian senior men's eight to compete at the Interstate Regatta for the King's Cup. He rowed again in West Australian King's Cup eights in 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999 and 2000. He stroked those WA eights in 1993, 1994 and 1996.

Scott contested national championship titles at the Australian Rowing Championships on a number of occasions. In 1996 in Curtin University colours he won the national coxless pair title (the Ted Bromley Memorial Trophy) with David Weightman and at stroke he won the 1996 national coxless four title in a composite selection crew.

International representative rowing Scott's first Australian representative appearance was in the 1989 Trans Tasman U23 series. He stroked one of the two Australian eights selected for the series of three match races against New Zealand. They won one match race and were twice beaten by the other Australian crew. In 1990 at the Nations Cup in Linz, Austria – the equivalent at that time of the World Rowing U23 Championships – Scott rowed in the seven seat of the Australian eight which achieved an overall fifth placing.

In 1990 Scott was elevated to the Australian men's eight and he raced in that crew at the 1990 World Rowing Championships in Lake Barrington, Tasmania to a seventh-place ranking.

Scott carried on rowing at the highest level post Barcelona. He stroked the Australian eight to a fourth placing at the 1993 World Championships in Racice. Scott and Weightman believed they had a real chance of gold and threw everything at their opponents in the final 500 m of a thrilling final. They had to be content with second place and a silver medal

Weightman and Scott paired up again toward the end of the next Olympiad in a late campaign for Sydney 2000. They both regained seats in their state eights at the national level in 1999 and 2000 and as Australian representatives they raced a coxless pair at two World Rowing Cups in Europe in 1999 and again in 2000. They placed third in the first outing but finished sixth in those other regattas. The gun Australian pair at that time were James Tomkins and Drew Ginn and although Ginn suffered a back injury at the first 2000 World Rowing Cup event, he was replaced by Matthew Long. Weightman and Scott weren't picked to the Australian squad for the 1999 World Championships and ultimately did not qualify for Sydney 2000.

In 2004 he rejoined Wesfarmers and progressed through a number of senior executive roles. He was General Manager, Business Projects; CEO of Wesfarmers Insurance (from 2007); Finance Director of Coles Supermarkets (from 2013); Managing Director, Financial Services (from 2014); then the Managing Director of the Wesfarmers Industrials Division (from August 2015). and a director of the University of Western Australia Business School Advisory Board. He is a director of Gresham Partners Holdings Limited (a financial advisory business half-owned by Wesfarmers) and is a past president and director of the Insurance Council of Australia. They have two children.