Investment Team
Thomas McGahan, CFA
Principal, Chief Investment Officer
As CIO, Tom leads the firm’s investment research efforts, portfolio construction/trading activities, and risk management functions, ensuring each client account is aligned with the investment principles of Eamon Capital Management.
Prior to founding Eamon Capital Management, Tom spent over 20 years advising and managing the investments of large institutional capital pools for corporate retirement benefit plans, public pension plans, endowments, and foundations. His direct investment management experience includes MetLife’s $21 billion and BNY Mellon’s $11 billion retirement benefit plans where he was responsible for financial market and asset class research, asset allocation decisions, and investment selection.
Further, he has advised and indirectly managed the investment platform offerings for several well-known registered investment platforms such as R.W. Baird, SEI Investments, Affiliated Managers Group, and Principal Financial Group. Prior to this, he was a sell-side equity research analyst covering healthcare and business service stocks at Piper Jaffray (now Piper Sandler) in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Tom holds an undergraduate degree in finance and an MBA with concentrations in finance and entrepreneurship from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also a CFA charterholder, a highly distinguished and globally recognized credential held by only 170,000 investment professionals worldwide. The right to use the CFA charter is earned through the completion of a rigorous study program testing fundamental investment tools, valuing of assets, portfolio management, and wealth management.
Investment Advisors
Francis Matthew Manella, CFP®, CKA, CSRIC, AEP
Head of Financial Planning
Matt has over 20 years of experience focusing on creating and delivering financial planning collaboratively with advisors affiliated with various firms encompassing the Financial Services industry. In his career as a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ (CFP®) he has delivered hundreds of detailed financial plans, each tailored to achieve a client’s goals efficiently and prudently.
Matt is FINRA Series 7, 66, 9 and 10 securities licensed, and life, health, and variable insurance licensed. He holds to the Certified Kingdom Advisor (CKA) designation for faith-based planning, the Chartered SRI Counselor (CSRIC) designation for values-based investment planning, the Accredited Estate Planner (AEP) designation for working collaboratively within the advisor community (advisors, attorneys, and accountants), and served as the president of the Estate and Financial Planning Council of Southern New Jersey.
Matt is a Gordon College graduate with a degree in Theology and minor in Biology with international studies taking him abroad to Southeast Asia, China, the Middle East, and the Caribbean aboard a 134-foor brigantine schooner. He and his wife are proud parents of their adventurous and trailblazing son and his triplet siblings. When not financial planning, you will find Matt at a youth soccer sideline, at the Jersey shore, and generally enjoying the outdoors.
