Kyle M. Weatherly

Kyle Weatherly, a two-time Badger, is the president of Alta Medical and the vice president of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.

Weatherly co-founded Alta Medical in Milwaukee in 2022 with his mother, Kathy Weatherly, a former occupational therapist. The family-owned company manufactures medical compression devices. Prior to starting Alta Medical, Weatherly was the founding CEO of Frontdesk, a short-term housing provider, and the president of Solaris Medical, a medical device company.

Weatherly earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and history from UW–Madison in 2004 and a master of public affairs degree in public management from UW–Madison in 2006. Between degrees, he worked for Habitat for Humanity, first in South Los Angeles as an AmeriCorps volunteer and later in Madison as a staff member.

Weatherly joined the Board of Regents in May 2020. He and his wife, Ruthie, live on Milwaukee’s Lower East Side.