Wight Martindale, Jr. has followed the West 4th Street Tournament for twenty years, and for the last decade and a half, served as one of four of its managing directors. After a successful career in journalism with Fairchild Publications as a reporter, bureau chief, and editor in chief, he shifted his attention to Wall Street, where he has been a senior vice president at Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, and others. He has taught at Temple, Villanova, and Lehigh Universities, studied at Oxford and Cambridge, and holds a PhD in English Literature from New York University.