RTAG Investments

Matt Conner grew up in Gastonia, North Carolina and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he majored in Economics and Religious Studies (BA, 2014). He went on to Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia for his M. Div. and has served as the Pastor of Newell Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) since graduating in 2017. He jokes that it took him a while to figure out why on earth he paired the majors he did in undergrad, but now he finds great joy in getting to be bi-vocational. 

 

Beyond congregational ministry, his experience includes serving as a chaplain for the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice, Interim UKirk Campus Minister at Agnes Scott College, CPE at MD Anderson Cancer Center, and a teaching assistant for Greek and Preaching at Columbia.  

 

Unable to shake an interest in “the family business,” he began exploring ways to come on board with his dad towards the end of 2021. In November of 2023, he passed his Series 65 exam, and in January became an Investment Advisor Representative, registered in North and South Carolina, with Brookstone Capital Management. 

 

Matt is married to his high school sweetheart, Sarah, and they have two boys— Eli (5) and Amos (3). They also have two dogs, Bo and Willow, neither of which knows they are actually a dog. He is passionate about community development, the outdoors, traveling, Southern food, anything involving the Carolina Tar Heels, and good stewardship.