Sinead Colton Grant
Chief Investment Officer, BNY Wealth

Sinead Colton Grant is Chief Investment Officer of BNY Wealth. She is responsible for the investment process including strategic and tactical asset allocation across public and private markets, manager selection, and is Chair of the Investment Policy Committee. Prior to this role, she led the Investor Solutions institutional OCIO franchise that develops customized investment portfolios for pension plans, foundations and endowments and family offices. Sinead joined BNY Wealth in 2020 as Deputy Chief Investment Officer and Head of Equities, with responsibility for the Large Cap Equity investment group, the Equity Trading team and the Capital Markets Group. She chaired the Equity Strategy Committee and was Vice Chair of the Investment Policy Committee. Previously, she was Head of Global Investment Strategy for Mellon Capital and Mellon Investments, BNY Investment’s multi-asset investment firms, and served on the Senior Leadership team, the Investment Risk Committee, and the Environmental, Social & Governance Investing Committee.

Prior to her role at Mellon, Sinead served as Managing Director of Investment Strategy for the Multi-Asset Client Solutions group at BlackRock and Barclays Global Investors in London, where she designed tailored investment solutions for institutional and wealth management clients in the U.K. and Europe. Earlier in her career, Sinead held portfolio management roles at JP Morgan Asset Management and was a founding partner and Head of Portfolio Management at Lee Overlay Partners, a global macro investment boutique.  

Sinead earned an MSc in Finance from London Business School and a BBS in Finance from Dublin City University in Ireland. She was recognized by Family Wealth Report as the 2025 Women in Wealth (Investment) award recipient, by Worth magazine in 2021 as one of their 50 Groundbreaking Women, and by Irish America magazine over multiple years as one of the Wall Street 50, which celebrates the contributions of Irish American and Irish born leaders in the financial industry.