He holds an MBA degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and was honored as a “Master in Profession” from his undergraduate alma mater, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He served as an academic advisor in helping start the Masters of Finance Program at the University of Denver and has authored articles for Trusts & Estates and Personal Financial Planning. Mr. Wright has a long history of community leadership. He serves as Secretary/Treasurer for the Zenon C.R. Hansen Foundation and has been involved with this foundation for 33 years. He is on the Board of Governors for the (THA) Tom Haggai and Associates Foundation. He is the Chair of the Graduate School Advisory Committee at the University of Colorado and is the Chair of the Endowment Committee for the University of Colorado Foundation. He is a Board member of the University of Nebraska Foundation and of the University of Colorado Foundation. He is a Chairman Emeritus for the Denver Area Council, Boy Scouts of America. Mr. Wright served on the Doane College Board of Trustees for 23 years.

He has developed many general and specific-purpose financial models, methods and techniques (see for example US Patent 7,461,021), authored numerous economic articles (see for example Why are Bond Yields so Low? A Brief Survey of the Bond Yield Conundrum; Global Imbalances, Bretton Woods II; The Global Saving Glut, Currency Adjustments and Dark Matter - an AMG National Trust Bank publication, January 2006) and contributed to the advancement of the field of investment risk control through asset allocation (see for example "Estimating Asset Class Standard Deviations and Correlations,” Journal of Wealth Management, Winter 2003 and “Multi-index Shrinkage Estimation: Theory and Empirical Tests,” Journal of Wealth Management, Summer 2005).