The Santa Clarita Man and Woman of the Year organization presents their 2026 Man of the Year recipient, Scott Hoolahan.

Since joining Rotary in 2019, Scott has been instrumental in growing the Club’s Membership, creating innovations in membership and personally recruiting more than 10 Members to join Rotary. Scott continuously gives freely of his time and energy to support every club project, volunteering to take on leadership roles, and leveraging his gift for building relationships and motivating others to get involved. Scott embodies the club slogan “Service Above Self,” in everything he has endeavored to accomplish. A master “fund raiser,” personally raising tens of thousands of dollars over the last six years through encouraging sponsorships, and increasing revenue of most every club legacy event. Scott has strengthened relationships with civic leaders, local business owners, professional organizations and forged new alliances with non-profit organizations in the community to leverage shared values and resources to have a broader impact in the lives of others. Scott was instrumental in merging two local clubs, to leverage the strength of membership to accomplish more together. Scott has worked to implement tools and systems to modernize processes, increase event revenue and drive innovation to deliver more funds to the bottom-line and enable our club to give more, and make a bigger impact to the lives of those we support.

Scott has also facilitated the securing of two College of the Canyons Scholarship programs; two Nursing Students scholarships, four students enrolled in Real Estate Certificate program; and a community grant for Access Athletics SCV, a program providing equipment and financial support for needy students. In addition, Scott is working with a Rotary committee to facilitate a $15000 Rotary International Grant to provide hospital equipment for a small Armenian community overrun by immigrants.

Scott is a native Californian, born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, moved to Canyon Country in 1981. Scott purchased his first home in Stevenson Ranch in 1996. He relocated to Detroit MI, where he served as an instructor for General Motors delivering Sales & Presentation skills training to General Motors sales executives and division leaders around the country, before transitioning to the mortgage industry in 1998 and relocating to Monterey, CA. Scott managed several mortgage sales teams as a branch manager, area manager, regional manager and SVP of Sales for several different mortgage companies. In 2004, Scott returned to the Santa Clarita Valley, where he has lived since 2006 and raised his two children, Shane and Sabrina. In 2018, Scott was voted amongst the TOP 100 “Most influential Mortgage Executives” by Mortgage Originators magazine. With more than 34 years experience in financial services, Scott is a seasoned sales professional with a diverse background and experience in all aspects of consumer direct residential lending with a passion for recruiting and business development. Today, Scott has leveraged his experience to establish himself as one of the areas experts in helping to educate “seniors,” and Realtors about how to use reverse mortgage lending products to allow Seniors to “age in place.”