Darla Hastings provides marketing consulting services to Dimensional, working primarily with the Managed DC team. Before moving to Austin, Darla was chief marketing officer for State Street Corporation, a leading global custodian and the world's largest institutional money manager by assets. Prior to that role, she founded and grew a communications consultancy, INCommunication, which served clients in the financial, technology, entertainment, and retail sectors. Darla spent the first sixteen years of her career at Fidelity Investments, where she innovated and managed a variety of core functions such as relationship marketing, brand management, corporate communications, product development, customer service, and corporate quality.

Darla earned a BA in American studies from the University of Texas, Austin, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.