Luke Gromen has 25 years of experience in equity research, equity research sales, and as a macro/thematic analyst.  He is the founder and president of macro/thematic research firm FFTT, LLC, which he founded in early 2014 to address and leverage the opportunity he saw created by applying what clients and former colleagues consistently described as a "unique ability to connect the dots" during a time when he saw an increasing "silo-ing" of perspectives occurring on Wall Street and in corporate America.  FFTT caters to institutions and sophisticated individuals by aggregating a wide variety of macroeconomic, thematic and sector trends in an unconventional manner to identify investable developing economic bottlenecks for his clients.

Prior to founding FFTT, Luke was a founding partner of Cleveland Research Company, where he worked from 2006-14.  At CRC, Luke worked in sales and edited CRC’s flagship weekly thematic research summary piece ("Straight from the Source") for the firm’s clients.  Prior to that, Luke was a partner at Midwest Research, where he worked in equity research and sales from 1996-2006.  While in sales, Luke was a founding editor of Midwest’s widely-read weekly thematic summary ("Heard in the Midwest") for the firm’s clients, in which he aggregated and combined proprietary research from Midwest with inputs from other sources. 

Luke Gromen holds a BBA in Finance and Accounting from the University of Cincinnati and received his MBA from Case Western Reserve University.  He earned the CFA designation in 2003.