Dr. Matthew R. McBrady

Dr. McBrady is a Professor of Practice in Finance at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia (the “Darden School”), where he has taught classes in Corporate Financial Strategy, Corporate Financing, and Impact and ESG Investing since August 2020. Prior to returning to academia, Dr. McBrady spent more than a decade as a private equity and hedge fund investor, serving as Senior Advisor and co-Chief Investment Officer of Callaway Capital (from January 2017 to December 2019), Managing Director of Investments at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (from September 2017 to January 2019) and Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of the Multi-Strategy Hedge Funds at BlackRock, Inc. (from January 2014 through September 2016). Prior to joining BlackRock, Dr. McBrady served as Managing Director and Head of Investment Strategy and Risk Management at Silver Creek Capital Management, LLC (from January 2009 through January 2014), and as a Senior Associate and Vice President in the North American Private Equity group at Bain Capital, LLC (from January 2007 to January 2009).

Prior to becoming a professional investor, Dr. McBrady served as both a senior economic policy advisor and finance professor. During his earlier career in academia, Dr. McBrady also served as a Professor of Finance at the Darden School (from May 2003 through December 2006) as well as the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania (from September 2002 through May 2003). From August 1998 through January 2000, Dr. McBrady served as an international economist with President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers and the U.S. Treasury Department. In addition to his work in the private sector and academia, Dr. McBrady currently serves as an advisor to a number of impact investing funds and as a Director and the Chairman of the Investment Committee for Global Partnerships, a non-profit impact investor that has deployed more than $800 million in concessionary loans to improve the lives of people living at the bottom of the pyramid in Central and South America and Africa. Dr. McBrady holds a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University, a M.Sc. in International Economics from Oxford University (U.K.) where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University. Dr. McBrady previously served as a director for the Company from January 2001 through June 2014.