Trent Read serves as Partner at Economics Partners. He served as Advior at Bridger Capital Partners. He began his career as an Analyst in investment banking with Deutsche Bank helping many consumer and business services companies with public and private equity and debt capital raises as well as mergers and acquisitions. He was then a Senior Financial Analyst for a $200 million business unit of Honeywell. He then returned to investment banking as an Associate and then Vice President at Wachovia Securities and Sagent Advisors respectively. He worked with media, digital media, telecom, software/SaaS and internet infrastructure companies on transactions that varied from multi-billion dollar LBOs to small growth equity capital raises.