Founder and Advisor @ Capital Insight, Inc. | Former Chief Investment Officer @ BlackRock | Board Member @ Axon (Nasdaq: AXON), Global Partnerships, and more | Finance Professor @ UVA's Darden School of Business

Matthew R. McBrady, Ph.D., is an independent investor, corporate Board member, and Senior Advisor to both venture-backed startups and aspiring hedge funds. Prior to moving to Washington, D.C. he spent nearly 15 years as a hedge fund and private equity investor, serving as the Chief Investment Officer of BlackRock's Multi-Strategy hedge fund (MuSt), the Managing Director of Investments at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and the head of Investment Strategy and Risk Management at Silver Creek Capital Management. Before moving to the private sector, Dr. McBrady was an award-winning professor at the Darden School of the University of Virginia and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Earlier in his career, he also served as both an economic policy advisor and entrepreneur. As a policy advisor, Dr. McBrady worked with Janet Yellen and Jeffrey Frankel in President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors where he was actively involved in shaping the administration's response to the Asian Financial Crisis. Timothy Geithner subsequently recruited him to join the Asian Financial Crisis Task Force which later became the U.S. Treasury's Office of Policy Development and Review. As an entrepreneur, Dr. McBrady helped establish and grow two successful public companies. First, aQuantive, a pioneer in digital marketing that had its IPO in 2000 and was subsequently acquired by Microsoft. He also led TASER International (now Axon) through its 2001 IPO helping transform it into a leading technology company as a Board Member for several years afterwards. Dr. McBrady earned an A.B. degree in Economics from Harvard College in 1992, an M.Sc. in Economics for Development from Oxford University in 1993, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a Ph.D. in Business Economics in 2002 from Harvard University. He has published numerous articles in academic journals, several Harvard Business School and Darden School case studies, and co-authored a chapter in the Encyclopedia of Financial Globalization.