Anthony Sharett

Anthony Sharett is the president of Meta Financial Group and MetaBank. Prior to being appointed to his current role in October 2021, Anthony served as executive vice president, chief legal and compliance officer, corporate secretary since June 2020; and executive vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary since September 2019. Anthony was responsible for the overall strategic leadership and oversight of Meta’s legal team, enterprise risk, public policy and regulatory affairs, and corporate secretarial functions. Anthony also oversaw compliance; environmental, social, and corporate governance; and community impact initiatives.

Before joining the company, Anthony held legal and business unit leadership positions at Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, including as the legal leader and interim president for Nationwide Bank and president of Nationwide Pet. Earlier in his career, Anthony was a partner at BakerHostetler where he was the national co-leader of the firm’s financial services practice group. He provided litigation, regulatory, and compliance counsel to banking and lending clients. Anthony has been nationally recognized as a champion for diversity, inclusion, and equity and has served in leadership positions for the Leadership Council for Legal Diversity and for the American Bar Association’s consumer financial services’ diversity and inclusion committee.

Anthony is also a community steward as a greater Phoenix leadership member, and he serves on the Arizona Community Foundation audit committee. He is a member of the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers and has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America. Anthony received his undergraduate degree in political science from Ball State University and holds a juris doctor degree from The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law, where he is a member of the national council.