Meridith L. Hutchens is the founder of Fortis Analytics, where she serves as Outsourced Chief Investment Officer, providing white-label investment services, portfolio research, and analytics to financial advisors and institutional investors. Drawing on decades of experience, she builds outcome-based, risk-conscious strategies — developing proprietary approaches when the strategies her clients need simply don't exist in the market.

Meridith founded Fortis out of frustration with the lack of transparency that prevails in investment management. Thinking clients deserved better than opaque models whose logic was not clear, she set out to establish investment strategies that were transparent and easy to explain.

Prior to founding Fortis, Meridith was a partner at Polaris Wealth Advisory Group and a wealth advisor at Merrill Lynch. She holds the Series 65 designation and earned her degree from Tulane University.

Meridith lives in Chicago with her husband and two adult children. She is a patron of the arts and a classically trained ballerina.