Kathleen McQuiggan has been appointed special advisor on gender diversity for the CFP Board Center for Financial Planning, the center announced Tuesday.
McQuiggan will develop the center’s efforts to draw more women into the financial profession and will head the center’s Women’s Initiative.
”Last year, we saw a record number of women earn CFP certification, but the fact remains that women make up only 23 percent of CFP professionals,” said Marilyn Mohrman-Gillis, the center’s executive director. “Kathleen is a true expert on gender diversity in financial services and passionate about empowering more women to succeed in the financial planning profession.”
McQuiggan began her career at the financial services firm Alex Brown in Baltimore and later spent 13 years at Goldman Sachs. In 2009, she founded the consulting firm Catalina Leadership, where she began an engagement with Pax World Management and later joined the firm as senior vice president of Global Women's Strategies. In that role, she was responsible for product management of the Pax Ellevate Global Women’s Index Fund and ran the firm’s Women & Wealth practice management initiative. McQuiggan currently works at Artemis Financial Advisors.
She holds a bachelor's degree from Towson University. McQuiggan served on the CFP Board WIN Council since the initiative’s inception in 2013. She is also an active member of SheGives, Women Working for Oceans, Ellevate Network, Plum Alley Investments and Dartmouth Natural Resource Trust.
McQuiggan takes over the role of special adviser on gender diversity from Eleanor Blayney, who recently established the Eleanor Blayney Gender Diversity Fund.