Associated Capital Group announced that Timothy H. Schott has been named Executive Vice President – Finance & Chief Financial Officer of Associated Capital Group. In this new position Mr. Schott will join as a member of the firm’s management committee and serve to head the Company’s finance group. Mr. Schott, prior to joining Associated Capital Group, led Lazard’s accounting compliance group as the Director of Accounting Policy where he was responsible for the review of all Lazard Ltd.’s GAAP regulatory accounting filings. More recently he was the Principal Accounting Officer at Tiptree Inc. where he was instrumental in the transformation of the company’s accounting, tax and internal controls, including the remediation of several material weaknesses.