About the Founder

Darin C. Wright is the CEO & President of The Wright Group Private Capital Firm (TWG). He has grown TWG from 3 brands to a portfolio of more than 65 brands in various industry sectors. Mr. Wright is what is referred to in the business world as a parallel entrepreneur - one who launches a series of enterprises simultaneously. He has performed this style of entrepreneurship for most of his career.

After completing a project for a Fortune 500 consumer products company in 4Q-2015, he decided to focus on reinventing his 3 businesses: StrategicIsite (strategic consulting), Heuristic Learning (education & training), and eblackwidow (technology consulting & software development). He recognized an opportunity to deliver more value to clients, which would lead him to take parallel entrepreneurship to a new level.

Leveraging his experience in strategic management, education and training, and technology, he began to develop a portfolio of meaningful brands positioned to fill individual and organizatonal needs. He then aligned and integrated these brands to provide holistic, robust solutions along a defined value chain to increase the value provided to stakeholders.

Mr. Wright has unequivocally stated that this has been one of his most challenging projects.

Consulting

Mr. Wright has consulted for many enterprises from startups to Fortune 500 corporations in profit, non-profit and government sectors including recognizable names like AT&T, JP Morgan, Johnson & Johnson, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, NJ Exposition Authority, and New York Botantical Garden, and Hackensack Meridian Healthcare. His consulting services have included strategic/project management, software development, and data management strategies and solutions.

Entrepreneur

Mr. Wright launched his professional career as a manager for AT&T, Global Business Systems Division. His initial entrepeneurial venture was establishing a company that partnered with AT&T to provide customized software applications for AT&T's Unix-based hardware. He stretched his entrepreneurial & project management skills when he converted an old real estate office into a full-service women's salon in less than 90 days while leading several projects for a major corporation. Prior to TWG, he has owned a variety of businesses including retail stores. He has organically financed every venture he has undertaken.

Educator

Mr. Wright teaches in the same disciplines that he consults. He has taught in some capacity for over 20 years that includes teaching at two NJ colleges, corporate-training, and community organizations. He has often been requested by corporations for instructor-led training and rated highly by those in his classes. He has developed curriculum for and taught all of his classes, multi-class programs, workshops and seminars that include marketing, e-commerce, project management, data science, entrepreneur development, ideation & innovation, strategy, Microsoft Office, Computer/Web programming. and other subjects. In addition to teaching at colleges and corporations, he has also teenagers including at-risk teenagers and Seniors (60+ years old).

His expertise is in strategy, business development, brand development, project management, and data management. He is still willing to rollup his sleeves to do some software development though he admits it is no longer an area of expertise.

Mr. Wright is a published author and lecturer. His next book, I M - Growing an enterprise according to the Laws of Nature" is expected to be completed in 2020. One concept from the book is "in Nature nothing is wasted" which is a basis for his entrepreneurial development process which has led to the creation of many of his brands.

Mr. Wright did his undergraduate studies in Physical Science at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD and graduate studies in the Executive Masters of Technology Management Program at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hobken, NJ. He has also studied marketing and economics at Wharton, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, MD. He is committed to learning and remains enrolled in online courses.

He has served in leadership roles for several community and professional organizations including Black Data Processing Associates (NJ Chapter), Knowledge Management (NJ Chapter), Polished Acts, and others.

Mr. Wright has been a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated since 1982. He was honored along with others in 2019 as being one of the original Naval Academy Ques (NAQ) who were the first to go over at a military service academy.

Here are some of the companies that Mr. Wright has had the opportunity to share his knowledge and expertise: