Matthew Wallace

Executive Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Hope Bancorp

Search every verified Matthew Wallace interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Matthew Wallace, then a civil engineering student at Georgia Tech, discussed his interest in the field in a 2016 interview. He stated that civil engineering appealed to him because he enjoyed building things from a young age and saw the discipline as an opportunity to work on a larger scale. Wallace noted his involvement with the American Society of Civil Engineers, including participating in a steel bridge competition that took his team to nationals in Seattle. Wallace expressed plans to pursue construction engineering, with a focus on commercial construction and vertical building. He cited population growth and urbanization as drivers for the importance of vertical construction, saying that expanding highways would not always be feasible and that people would need to live closer to job centers. He also mentioned that Georgia Tech’s civil engineering program emphasized sustainability and maximizing resources.