Matthew McGrath

Founder & Managing Director at Emissary Partners

Chair

Matthew L. McGrath is Founder and Managing Director of Emissary Partners, a global special situations firm for family offices and institutional investors. Over a five-year period, Matt has built Emissary into a respected global advisory firm helping family offices manage and exit their challenging legacy asset portfolios, typically comprising five percent of assets under management.

Matt founded Emissary Partners after nine years at the Albright Stonebridge Group (ASG), the global commercial diplomacy firm headquartered in Washington, DC and founded by the late former Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, and the late former National Security Advisor, Sandy Berger. There he advised clients in over 12 sectors and on emerging-market business issues in over 40 different countries.

Matt began his career in international politics, working in the National Security Affairs Office of then-Vice President Joseph R. Biden at The White House. Today, he serves as Vice Chairman of the Harriman Foreign Service Fellowship in Washington, DC, as Trustee of the International Churchill Society, and as a member of the Milken Institute’s Young Leaders Circle.