Mark Mcmeans
Chief Executive Officer
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- Full Name
- Mark McMeans, CFA
- Title
- Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer
- Firm
- Brasada Capital Management
- Firm Type
- Wealth management, investment advisory, and portfolio management firm
- Investment Stage
- Public-market investment strategies; no publicly verified seed-stage or angel-investing mandate found
- Target Company Profile
- Quality businesses with strong differentiation, secular tailwinds, exceptional management, tangible value creation, and margin of safety
- Sector Focus
- Public equities, corporate bonds, municipal bonds, cash management, long/short equity, preferred income, dividend growth, equity income, and select alternative strategies
- Geographic Focus
- Primarily U.S. public markets with select international public equities
- Location
- Houston, Texas
Background
Mark McMeans is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Brasada Capital Management, a Houston-based wealth management and investment advisory firm. Brasada’s website lists him as part of the investment team and identifies the firm’s services as investment advisory, portfolio management, financial planning, and retirement planning.
McMeans began his career as an auditor and CPA at KPMG, primarily serving investment companies. He later joined what is now J.P. Morgan’s trust department as an accounting supervisor before moving to AIM Investments in Houston.
He spent 16 years at AIM Investments in several roles, including Director of Equity Portfolio Management and President of AIM Private Asset Management. AIM was later acquired by Invesco; McMeans notes that AIM became the eighth-largest mutual fund manager in the United States.
In 2008, during the Great Financial Crisis, McMeans co-founded Brasada with three AIM Investments alumni. He holds an MBA in Finance from Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business, a BBA in Accounting from the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business, and is a CFA charterholder.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- McMeans describes his personal investment orientation as being drawn to “secular growth at a reasonable price.”
- Brasada’s portfolio management approach is research-focused, thesis-driven, fundamental, and long-term oriented.
- The firm seeks businesses with sector tailwinds, competitive positioning, attractive economics, long-term growth prospects, strong competitive edge, growth, and quality management.
- Brasada favors concentrated positions in quality businesses with differentiation, secular tailwinds, and strong management.
- The firm’s process emphasizes idea generation, fundamental research, portfolio construction, portfolio monitoring, and capital reallocation.
- Brasada explicitly seeks to avoid highly indebted companies, abnormally expensive valuations, lack of growth, weak differentiation, unproven operators, deteriorating economics, and overly complex business models.
- No public source found verified McMeans as an active seed-stage angel investor, despite the stub data describing an angel-investor role.
Notable Investments
- Postal Realty Trust (PSTL): Brasada highlighted PSTL in its Q1 2026 commentary as a recent investment in its Friedberg Equity Income Strategy; the firm described it as a small-cap REIT focused on USPS-leased properties.
- Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte (OMAB): Brasada highlighted OMAB in Q1 2026 as a recent Friedberg Equity Income Strategy investment; the company operates 13 international airports in Mexico.
- Ferguson plc (FERG): Brasada’s Q3 2025 commentary discussed Ferguson as a specialty distributor investment tied to housing, waterworks, commercial, civil infrastructure, and data-center demand.
- Broadcom (AVGO): Brasada’s Q3 2025 commentary said it added Broadcom to Equity Income in April 2025 and viewed it as a major beneficiary of AI infrastructure and custom-chip demand.
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