ACG Kentucky Speaker Series - December 2019

Jason Trennert is the managing partner of Strategas Research Partners LLC and the chairman and chief executive officer of the firm's broker-dealer subsidiary, Strategas Securities, LLC. Prior to co-founding Strategas in 2006, Mr. Trennert was the 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, Mr. Trennert is a regular guest host on CNBC's "Squawk Box" and "Bloomberg Surveillance" with Tom Keene. He is the author of three books on investing and the investment business. My Side of the Street, published in 2015 by St. Martin’s Press, was described as a “colorful account of how it was and how the financial markets are changing, for better and for worse.” 

Mr. Trennert was the treasurer of La Scuola d’Italia where he built and oversaw its investment committee. He is a member of the board of governors of The Columbus Citizens Foundation. He has an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and B.S. in international economics from Georgetown University. 

James Allen joined Hilliard Lyons in 1981 and has served as Chairman and CEO since 2004. Jim is active in the financial services industry and with the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, where he currently serves on the board as board chairman. Jim is involved civically in Louisville, where he is the current Board Chairman of the Jefferson County Public Education Foundation and the 2018 board chair of Greater Louisville, Inc., Louisville’s Chamber of Commerce. He is the former Chairman of the Fund for the Arts, and he chaired the 2016 Metro United Way Campaign for Greater Louisville.
He also serves on the Advisory Board for the University of Louisville School of Business, the Board of Trustees of Bellarmine University, and the Dean’s Advisory Council for the Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University. Jim holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from DePauw University and an MBA in finance from the Ohio State University. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst®.