Matthew L. Crane
 

Matthew Loyd Crane is a Virginia real estate developer and business consultant. He serves on several nonprofit boards in Central Virginia, including Forthright Legal, which represents and educates citizens on family-law and immigration matters. He also serves on the boards of the Charlottesville Committee on Foreign Relations, the Blue Ridge Mountains Rotary Club and Habitat for Humanity. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he studied Philosophy and Classical Literature, and where he played defensive tackle on the 1979 Ivy League Champion Yale Bulldog football team. Today he is president of Arterra Design & Construction, one of the area's leading builders of custom high-end housing; he founded the firm in 2009. In recent years Mr. Crane has spearheaded capital-raising ventures in Charlotteville's vibrant biotechnology sector. He joined the advisory board of Newbridge Media in 2020. He and his family live in Earlysville, Va.