John Brenke

Managing Director of Strat S.P.A.

John Brenke is a native of Ocean Springs Mississippi. He is a former Director of Strategy for a Fortune 400 operating in the Aerospace / Defense sector, and further was a member of the Board of Trustees for the Ocean Springs Public School District.

John is a value-focused and data driven individual with a gift for strategy and big picture thinking. He is imaginative, engaged and highly effective, and well read across broad range of subjects. He has a reputation for taming complexity by creating accessible frameworks, innovative analysis, and compelling narratives and presentations. John is superior at facilitating large group discussion and achieving consensus on objectives and strategy. He further has exceptional writing skills

He is a 1988 graduate of St. Joseph College in Covington Louisiana, a 1993 graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg Mississippi, and 1995 magna cum laude graduate of the Universitiet Antwerpen in Antwerp Belgium. He also attended the Katholieke Universitiet Leuven in Leuven Belgium. John and his wife, the former Kelly Ellis, also of Ocean Springs, have 4 grown children: Victoria, Annie-Kate, John Lawrence and Max.

Testimonials

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John has highly developed strategic thinking skills, excellent management abilities, and superb interpersonal skills.

Strat S.P.A.’s work is of extremely high quality — whether competitive analysis, assessing investment options, developing strategy, or setting up/running executive table-top gaming sessions – or otherwise. If you want a hard-working, deeply informed, and insightful colleague/employee, look no further.

John’s grasp of complex possibilities and trade-offs for new enterprises has always been incisive, and his outstanding interpersonal skills invariably facilitated quick progress with diverse working groups, as well as rapid identification and presentation of key decision information. John and Strat S.P.A. were always a pleasure to work with!

John is within an elite crowd .. someone to whom you could bring an issue, a problem, or question and receive thoughtful, insightful, and substantive engagement to help frame, think through, resolve, and/or answer the issue. For two decades, now, John has been a valued person in my circles — able to provide new/additional ways to address challenges and enhancing the quality of my resulting product.

John is a thought leader with the unique ability to factor in all the players and levers affecting the subject matter. He is a great strategist who is so forward thinking in his outlook on the industry as well as the society in general. Working with John was a great pleasure as I was able to further understand the inner workings of the industry with the internal/external players. He also inspires multi-faceted/empirical thought process/ I look forward to working with John in the future

Strat S.P.A. brings energy, analytical and strategic thinking to any project with which they’re involved. John is both a skilled individual thinker and a great collaborator and motivator–and an effective communicator as well.

John and Strat S.P.A. brings unmatched depth and a diverse range of skills to strategy. He translates statistics, mathematics, and game theory simulations into organizational strategy. He can crunch complexity into real world planning and policy.

Mr. Brenke is an excellent and helpful person overall. When I graduated in May 2021, we were right in thick of the pandemic. Many students including myself struggled to find meaningful employment in our fields. He did everything he could to help me connect with employers and went out of his way for me. That’s something that means a lot to me and I’ll never forget it.

John’s ability to interpret and integrate customer requirements and translate those requirements into understandable terms is his superpower. He was able to read customer requirement documents and help anyone in the company understand what our customer needed to receive from the company. He willingly and easily shares information with team members and customers alike and his willingness to share information made my job easier. I would highly recommend John for positions in most industries and would always volunteer to work with him again if the opportunity presented itself.