Mr. Jason DeSena Trennert is the Chief Executive Officer at Strategas Securities, LLC. Mr. Trennert is also the Managing Partner and Chief Investment Strategist at Strategas Research Partners, LLC. He co-founded the firm in 2006. Prior to this, Mr. Trennert was the Chief Investment Strategist and a Senior Managing Director at International Strategy & Investment Group LLC, where he built and oversaw two of the firm’s research efforts, the company surveys and investment strategy groups. Earlier, he was the Treasurer at La Scuola d’Italia. Mr. Trennert is the Chairman of Strategas Securities, LLC. Mr. Trennert has been ranked by Institutional Investor magazine as one of the top Strategists on Wall Street consistently for years. He is known as one of Wall Street’s top thought leaders on the subject of markets and economic policy. In 2006, Mr. Trennert was named to SmartMoney magazine’s Power 30 list of the most influential people in the world of investing. He is widely quoted in the domestic and foreign press and is a regular guest host on CNBC’s Squawk Box and Bloomberg Surveillance with Tom Keene. Mr. Trennert has written essays on investing and is the author of the investment book, New Markets, New Strategies, published in 2005 by McGraw Hill. He holds an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in International Economics from Georgetown University.