Prior to founding Strategas, Trennert was Chief Investment Strategist and a Senior Managing Director at International Strategy & Investment Group where he built and oversaw two of that firm’s most popular research efforts, its Company Surveys, and Investment Strategy groups. Widely quoted in the domestic and foreign press, Trennert is a regular guest on business news programs broadcast by CNBC, CNBC Italia, Fox Business News, and Bloomberg TV, among others. He is the author of three books about investing and the investment business, including My Side of the Street: Why Wolves, Flash Boys, Quants, and Masters of the Universe Don't Represent the Real Wall Street, and his articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, and Investor’s Business Daily.

He is committed to a number of Italian, Italian-American, and Catholic causes in New York and abroad. For his efforts he was honored at the 66th Annual Columbus Day parade in New York and was awarded the honorific of Cavaliere by the Republic of Italy on June 2, 2017. Mr. Trennert is a member of the investment committees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the National WWII Museum. He has an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and BS in International Economics from Georgetown University.