Matthew Weirich

Matthew Weirich was a vice-chair on the board of trustees and a principal consultant for Snider Consulting Group. He joined in the Fall of 2022 as a member of Cohort 5.

Matthew pursued an Electrical Engineering degree on the pre-law track. He was also a part of the QUEST honors program cohort 39, a peer mentor and TA for the Electrical and Computer Engineering school, and an academic peer coach for the A. James Clark School of Engineering

Matthew has experience in leading teams, logic-based project design, entrepreneurship, innovation, and team building

Apart from SCG, Matthew was a peer mentor for the ECE department, a mentor for the QUEST honors program, and a buddy for the Global Communities honors program. Outside of UMD, after his freshman year, Matthew worked at the United States Naval Research Laboratory as a radar countermeasure hardware developer. Following his sophomore year, He worked with ExxonMobil as an electrical engineering intern. After his junior year, he became the first-ever technical specialist intern at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner.

At home, Matthew has started two successful businesses: One is a pop-up fine dining restaurant out of his home called Restaurant Confluence, and a landscaping business called Weirich Landscaping. Matthew is also the sole inventor on two US patents and has multiple more currently pending at the USPTO.