Megan C. Ford

MEGAN is a vice president and special accounts consultant manager in the Default and Restructuring Group of Computershare Trust Company, N.A. in Columbia, Md., following its acquisition of Wells Fargo’s corporate trust group. She helps support escalated and defaulted matters for several products, including corporate debt, municipal conduit, municipal housing, agency and lease. She is responsible for managing a group of experienced special account consultants while continuing to actively resolve escalated corporate trust account issues. Computershare recognized her with the Purple Award in 2023, a global recognition of people who exemplify Computershare’s corporate values. On top of managing the group, she focuses on complex corporate debt defaults, chapter 11 bankruptcies and growing Computershare Corporate Trust’s successor trustee business. She has been involved in some of the most complicated and novel chapter 11 cases and regularly serves on unsecured creditors’ committees for RAIT Financial, 24 Hour Fitness, Hertz, Lannett, WeWork and Rite Aid.

Very early in Megan’s career, she attended and participated in many mediations across the country. After passing the bar, she worked with surety companies, learning about insurance subrogation and insolvency, and became fascinated with bankruptcy. She joined the company’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion strategy group to help foster improvement of its DEI goals. She also co-hosts quarterly virtual networking events that help bring people of different backgrounds together, and she leads the company’s Diversity Week and Purple Pride Day to continue to celebrate the inclusivity and the value of diversity. In addition, she has identified opportunities to train another group in the company on default, insolvency and bankruptcy, having created and participated in periodic learning sessions that teach newly minted lawyers Bankruptcy 101, what is a default, how to network and other topics to help grow and improve their skills for future opportunities. She also serves as Communications Manager for ABI’s Emerging Industries and Technology Committee.

Megan was raised by a father who spent his entire career as a public defender and a mother who was a social worker, so teaching the value of serving others is a priority. To this end, she serves as treasurer of her daughter’s Girl Scout Troop and is keen to help nurture girls’ confidence. She also mentors others, particularly women, and volunteers with a nonpartisan group to help with their postcard-writing campaign to support voting rights. In 2020 and again in 2024, the postcard-writing campaign delivered handwritten postcards to individuals to remind them to vote and to provide them with information on how to ask for help to get to the polls. She also has also spent time volunteering at a local food bank.