Bio - Scott Fehrenbacher

Scott joined Crosswalk.com, the nation’s largest Christian Internet community, in 1998 when they acquired his company, the Institute for American Values Investing. Today Scott is Vice President of Crosswalk.com and is responsible for the content programming and development of ten channels at Crosswalk.com including the News & Culture, Spiritual Life, Money, Values- based Investing, Home Schooling, and other channels.

Before joining Crosswalk.com, Scott founded the Institute for American Values Investing; a national leader in providing cultural investment screening research to Wall Street. Based in Seattle, Washington, the Institute was the first organization to analyze and rate individual companies and mutual fund portfolios based on socially conservative screening criteria. The new methodology has been reviewed in many publications including The New York Times, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, London Sunday Telegraph, Dallas Morning News, International Herald Tribune, as well as Money, Business Week, Mutual Fund, New Republic, Institutional Investor, and American Banker magazines. Scott has also appeared on CNBC, the Oliver North Show, Mary Matalin Show, Beverly LaHaye Show, Janet Parshall Show, Dick Staub Show, and the AFA national radio network.

Before creating the Institute, Scott was a stockbroker and financial advisor for fourteen years beginning with E.F. Hutton. As a financial adviser, Scott was an active public speaker as well as a guest lecturer on cruises. Scott was also involved in the media a financial adviser. He hosted his own weekly radio show and was a daily commentator on business for the local CBS-affiliate morning television news in Washington state.

Scott earned Bachelor degrees in economics and political science at the University of Idaho where he was Student Body President. He also studied finance in graduate school at the University of Houston.

Scott has been involved in his local church at various levels including as a Sunday school teacher and board member. Scott is married to the former Joan Bramon of Sun Valley, Idaho. They have three children -- Rainer, Spencer and Lexington -- and live in Herndon, Virginia.