Carl Jeffrey Wright, J.D.
President and CEO
Jeff Wright’s background includes over 15 years in the Fortune 50 companies Johnson & Johnson and Bristol-Myers Squibb, where his last position was Vice President Corporate Development (mergers, acquisitions, and strategic alliances) for its consumer businesses. Jeff has been a licensed minister in the Baptist church since 1988. A lawyer, Jeff is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, and is admitted to the Pennsylvania bar and the U.S. Supreme Court bar. He has an MBA in finance from Columbia University Graduate School of Business and graduated with honors from Fisk University. He completed additional study in the Harvard Law School Program of Instruction for Lawyers, the Wharton School in business development, and taught jurisprudence and ethics at the graduate level in Indiana at the University of Evansville for four years.
Jeff serves on the board of Americans United for Life, The Christian Film and Television Commission, Evangelical Christian Publishers Association, Fuller Theological Seminary, and Urban Outreach Foundation. He also serves as board president and CEO of Circle Y Ranch (Bangor, Michigan), one of the few African American owned and operated Christian camps in the country. |