Megan Galvin

Megan joined New State in 2023 with 25 years of experience in marketing, sales, and executive leadership. Megan has strategic and operational experience in bringing new products, services, and commercial models to market, in segmentation and targeting, in positioning and messaging, and driving pipeline through omni-channel marketing campaigns and sales programs in B2B, B2C, and B2B2C revenue models.

Prior to joining New State, Megan was Senior Vice President of Marketing for Cengage Learning, where she was responsible for driving revenue through brand, demand gen, and sales enablement programs; creating, accelerating, and closing pipeline; and driving customer renewal, upsell, cross-sell and loyalty at scale. She built marketing, sales, and customer success capabilities and led digital business transformation from a go-to-market perspective.

Prior to Cengage Learning, Megan was VP Director of Marketing at Pearson, a global media company, after positions of successively growing revenue and market responsibility. She started her career as a sales representative for Addison Wesley Publishing.

Firm bio: 

New State Capital Partners is an entrepreneurial-minded private equity firm that strives to be nimble, decisive, and cooperative. New State prides itself on a long-term outlook, approaching each potential investment as an opportunity to create lasting and valuable relationships with company founders and independent sponsors. The firm has the ability to invest up to $100 million in equity per transaction and seeks to invest in market-leading companies with services-based business models and $8 million to $40 million of EBITDA. New State and its affiliates have invested in almost 40 companies to date. For more information visit www.newstatecp.com