Jason Wright

Jason Wright is an American businessman who is the president of the Washington Commanders of the National Football League. He is the NFL’s first-ever Black president and the youngest current president of an NFL team. Born and raised in the Greater Los Angeles area, he attended Northwestern University and played running back for their football team in the early 2000s. He then played seven years in the NFL as a reserve player, originally signing as an undrafted free agent with the San Francisco 49ers in 2004 before having stints with the Atlanta Falcons, Cleveland Browns, and Arizona Cardinals.

In 2011, Wright retired from the NFL and enrolled at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, graduating with a Master of Business Administration degree in operations and finance two years later. He then worked for the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company until being named president of the Washington Commanders in 2020. The history-making appointment made him the first Black president in the league's history, taking on the role at perhaps the most challenging era of the team's history. "What has me even more excited now is that there are problems and there are things we need to fix," Wright told the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Wright also co-led the "global inclusion strategy and spearheaded global outreach to executives of color," skills he will no doubt put to use in his new role.