Matthew W. Wright, CFA
Founder, President & Chief Investment Officer, Disciplina Capital Management
Since founding the firm in 2013, he has led Disciplina's investment philosophy, portfolio strategy, and institutional client relationships, partnering with missiondriven organizations to steward long-term investment portfolios.
Before launching Disciplina, Matthew served as Vice Chancellor for Investments and Chief Investment Officer of Vanderbilt University's $4.0 billion endowment. At the time of his appointment in 2007, he became the first African American to serve as Chief Investment Officer of a multi-billion-dollar university endowment. Earlier in his career, he held senior investment leadership roles at Emory University's endowment, Bank of America Capital Management's Quantitative Strategies Group, and Xerox Corporation's Trust Investments department.
Matthew earned a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Seton Hall University and an M.B.A. from the University of Rochester. He is a member of the CFA Institute, serves on the Investment Committee of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation and the Finance Committee of Father Ryan High School, and is a graduate of Leadership Nashville.
He previously served on the Seton Hall University Board of Regents and Board of Trustees, where he chaired both the Investment and Academic Affairs Committees and served on the Executive Committee. A respected voice within the institutional investment community, Matthew has delivered commencement and guest lectures at universities and industry conferences and has been featured in publications including The Wall Street Journal, Institutional Investor, Pensions & Investments, FundFire, With Intelligence, and Non-Profit News.