Matthew Teague serves as a Development Director at Walton Communities, an Atlanta-based apartment development company dedicated to creating affordable housing for families and seniors, in addition developing market rate apartment homes. Walton manages approximately 5000 apartment homes in the Atlanta and Augusta Georgia markets. In his role as Development Director, Matthew searches for future opportunities to follow Walton’s mission of “Going beyond building places where people live by creating neighborhoods where people thrive.” Before returning home to Atlanta, Matthew served as a presidential appointee to George W. Bush in Washington, DC in various roles including as an Associate Director in Presidential Personnel at The White House and as White House Liaison at the U.S. Small Business Administration. In both roles, Matthew recruited senior executives in the financial services, commerce, housing, and transportation industries to serve as presidential appointees at Cabinet agencies such as the Department of Treasury, Commerce, Transportation, and the Small Business Administration. In his local community, Matthew is a member and deacon at Atlanta Westside Presbyterian Church, a member in various capacities at the Cobb Chamber of Commerce, a Level One CrossFit Trainer, and generally enjoys everything in the outdoors. Matthew graduated cum laude with a BA from Rhodes College in Memphis Tennessee.