Meara Ranadive

Meara manages several of VMT’s corporate social marketing accounts as a well as all marketing for both VMT and SocialToaster. She is a recent graduate of the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, where she earned an M.B.A. in both marketing and finance. Prior to business school, she worked in marketing and event planning for the American Advertising Federation (AAF) in Washington, DC. As the Marketing Manager she was responsible for the Advertising Hall of Achievement, Advertising Hall of Fame, and ADDY® Awards as well as Ad Expo, the advertising industry’s premier trade show. In 2005 she conceived and launched the Advertising Hall of Fame web site, a virtual museum that generated over one million visits in its first year online and earned her a WebAward from the Web Marketing Association. In addition to her tenure in the advertising world, Meara has spent time working with Baltimore finance firm T.Rowe Price Associates in their retail marketing division. She holds a B.S. in Business from Wake Forest University.