Donald Luskin
Chief Investment Officer
don@trendmacro.com

Don's 30-year career as an entrepreneur, executive, investment manager and commentator has been built around his passion for the application of technology and innovation to the challenge of investing.

Prior to founding Trend Macrolytics with David Gitlitz, Don was vice chairman and co-chief investment officer of Barclays Global Investors. After a decade building Wells Fargo Investment Advisors into the world's largest and most innovative investment manager -- where indexing, tactical asset allocation and quant-active investing were invented and popularized -- Don was a member of the three-man management team that sold the firm to Barclays Bank PLC in 1995.

After Barclays, Don was CEO and co-founder of MetaMarkets.com, and manager of the pathbreaking OpenFund -- the world's first "interactive mutual fund," that showed all its holdings and trading activity in real-time on the Internet.

Don was the inventor of the POSIT ECN, and founder of Investment Technology Group at Jefferies & Company. He has been a hedge fund manager and an options market maker on the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the Pacific Stock Exchange, and the New York Stock Exchange.

Don appears weekly on CNBC's "Kudlow & Company". His columns are published weekly on SmartMoney.com. He contributes frequently to the editorial page of Wall Street Journal, and to National Review Online. His articles and commentaries have been published in the Harvard Business Review, National Review, Pensions & Investments, Townhall, the American Spectator, the San Jose Mercury News and the Detroit News. He was formerly a columnist for TheStreet.com and Business 2.0.

He is the author of Index Options and Futures: The Complete Guide, and editor of Portfolio Insurance: The Guide to Dynamic Hedging, both published by Wiley.

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David Gitlitz
Chief Economist
dgitlitz@trendmacro.com

David is a recognized authority on capital markets and the market influences of political and policy developments affecting incentives to wealth creation.

David has developed a wide following for his iconoclastic approach to forecasting and analyzing developments in macroeconomic and market dynamics. He is recognized as the first economist to diagnose the monetary deflation of the late 1990s, and forecast its effects on the Asian and US economies

Previously, David was managing director of Kudlow & Co. He worked as chief economist of DG Capital Advisors, and was a member of the MetaMarkets Think Tank. Earlier, he served as senior economist at Polyconomics Inc., the economics research firm headed by Jude Wanniski, leading the firm’s analysis of domestic and global capital markets.

David was also director of research and communications for the United Shareholders Association, the shareholder advocacy group founded by T. Boone Pickens. He was the former Washington editor of Bondweek, and former senior editor of Fed Fortnightly. His work has been published in the Wall Street Journal, National Review, Dow Jones Markets, and TheStreet.com, and he has appeared on CNBC and Fox News.

He is a graduate of the University of Maryland.

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Thomas Demas
Managing Director
tdemas@trendmacro.com

As client service and marketing point of contact, Tom brings to bear a keen understanding of market-based, supply-side economics and the connection between politics and markets -- as well as a flair for client communications

Tom was institutional sales manager at Polyconomics, the economics research firm headed by Jude Wanniski. His institutional experience ranges from representing macroeconomics research firms such as H.C. Wainwright Economics, and 13D Research to securities analysts such as GARP Research, Calvert Crary and Farmhouse Equity Research.

As an institutional salesman for both Rochdale Securities and Capital Institutional Services, Tom was involved exclusively in independent research, bringing together the best and brightest on Wall Street with their counterparts in the firms he has represented. Communicating with top decision-makers, Tom has served as the information distribution nexus for timely and need-to-know analysis.

Tom graduated from St. Lawrence University with a BA in economics.