Matthew Arendt, Chair

Matthew is a Wealth Management Advisor at Merrill Lynch Fifth Avenue in New York and has been active on the board of Bronx Charter School for the Arts since 2004. In addition to leadership positions at Ogilvy & Mather and DoubleClick, Matthew also worked as a Vice President of Business Development for Edison Schools helping districts of all achievement levels to use data to drive achievement gains system wide. Matthew formerly served as a board member of Stuyvesant Cove Park on East 23rd Street and as a committee member of DirectEffect, a group dedicated to raising funds for HIV and AIDS vaccine research at Rockefeller University. Matthew graduated from Cornell University in 1991 and completed a two-year stint as a charter corp member of Teach for America in Houston, Texas.