Matthew Weirich

Matthew Weirich is 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 is pursuing an Electrical Engineering degree on the pre-law track. He is 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 is 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 where he will be returning full-time as a patent agent following his graduation in May 2025.

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.