BOA R D profile
DORY A. WILEY
Dory A. Wiley, president and chief executive
officer of Commerce Street Capital, LLC, is among
the nation’s most astute leaders in the investment
banking and fund management business. He is a
CPA, CFA, and CVA, and holds multiple securities licenses. Since co-founding Commerce Street
Capital in 2007, Dory’s primary focus has been
the management and growth of its broker dealer
and the creation of investment funds that specialize in financial institutions.
As a seventh-generation Texan – along with a slow
drawl to prove it – Dory hails from Ralls, a town
with a population of less than 2,000 people just east
of Lubbock. He and his wife of more than 20 years
now live in Dallas and have two sons.
Dory earned his B.B.A. in Finance and
Accounting from Texas Tech University, and his
M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University. He
regularly speaks about corporate finance, asset allocation and alternative investments, and has presented at several of the nation’s elite universities
including Harvard, Yale, Rice, Duke and Stanford.
But when it comes to what he enjoys most about
serving on the Baylor Health Care System
Foundation board, there’s a bit of a role-reversal:
“I really enjoy the learning sessions we have in our
meetings” he said.
A little more than a year ago, one of the educational sessions focused on viruses, outbreaks and
epidemics. “About a month later, we had the Ebola
outbreak in Dallas,” Dory said. “I felt like I was
extremely well educated from that learning session.
If I hadn’t had that, I wouldn’t have had as much
understanding about the outbreak.”
He enjoys learning about how Baylor is addressing ri