Philip C. Dotts, Managing Director, Public Financial Management, Inc:
Phil Dotts is a Managing Director located in PFM’s Huntsville, Alabama office. PFM is the nation’s leading provider of independent financial and investment advisory services and has been ranked as the nation’s number one financial advisor for fifteen consecutive years. Dotts formerly was President of Public FA, Inc., which he formed in 2001 after spending twenty-five years in corporate and public finance work with major bank holding companies in North Carolina and Alabama and with a regional investment banking firm. PFA was consistently ranked as one of the leading Financial Advisors in Alabama and in the Southeast. In addition to Alabama, Public FA had clients in over thirty states that include state and local governments, counties, utility boards, universities, airport authorities, and housing authorities.
Dotts has had extensive experience in most areas of public and corporate finance. He has managed taxable and tax-exempt financings for public issuers of all kinds including housing, healthcare, public utilities, higher education, airports, municipalities, and public school systems, as well as for numerous economic development and industrial projects. PFA also provides on-going financial advisory and consulting services for a number of governmental clients in addition to its transactional work.
Dotts serves on the Boards of First Commercial Bank, the ExChange Bank of Alabama and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama. He was formerly on the Advisory Board of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta and the Fannie Mae Advisory Board for Alabama. Phil served on the Board of Commissioners of the Huntsville Housing Authority for seven years. He also is a founding board member and serves as Chairman of the Board of Neighborhood Concepts, Inc., a non-profit (501(c))-3) developer of affordable housing and other community development oriented projects.
Dotts is a past Chair of the Business Council of Alabama and continues to serve on the BCA Executive Committee. He also serves on the Boards of the A+ Education Foundation, the Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama, Leadership Alabama, the Huntsville Downtown Redevelopment Authority and The Episcopal Foundation of the Diocese of Alabama. In 2009, Phil was appointed by Governor Bob Riley to the Alabama Commission on Higher Education and was confirmed by the Alabama State Senate in early 2010.
Phil is a 1972 graduate of Davidson College and a 1980 graduate of the School of Banking of the South at Louisiana State University. He also was the recipient of a National Science Foundation research grant to study economics at the University of Minnesota. Phil is a Certified Independent Public Financial Advisor (CIPFA).
Phil is married to Kathleen Wells Dotts, a high-school English teacher. They have two adult daughters.