Meghan McCartan
Chief Marketing Officer
Meghan is CMO at Composition Wealth, responsible for marketing strategy to drive both organic and inorganic growth. She was previously CMO at Hightower Advisors, and is a twenty-five year veteran of the wealth management industry, recognized for her expertise in driving marketing planning to deliver bottom-line growth; experience in building and leading high-performing, award-winning teams; experience in launching and growing brands, and overall marketing and executive leadership.
Meghan has been recognized as one of WealthManagement.com’s “10 to Watch”; awarded one of three “Top CMO” awards by Wealth Solutions Report; recognized as one of Crain’s top marketing leaders in New York; included in the Financial Narrative list of Top Marketing Influencers, and recognized with her team for numerous Financial Communications Society awards based on initiatives and completed projects. She was also presented with an award for “Women Changing the World” by the Avon “Hello Tomorrow” fund in 2005, based on her work founding a conference for working mothers and a blog, Tightropemommy.
Meghan is passionate about creative, engaging storytelling as a key component of successful marketing strategy and planning; she is an effective collaborator focused on bringing silo’ed areas together in pursuit of team goals. She holds an MBA in Marketing Management from Tulane University and a BA from William and Mary. She is the fiercely proud mother of four daughters and enjoys sailing and time on the beach!
Fun Facts:
- She grew up sailing on the Long Island Sound, and the craziest thing she ever did was charter a sailboat in the USVI’s with herself as captain and her daughters as crew.
- She has an Irish Doodle named Keeley, whom she talks to as if she were a person.
- She lives a mile from the beach and tries to walk to see the water every day that she can.