Patrick Brennan earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from New York University and his MBA in general management from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.
He spent several years working with PricewaterhouseCoopers in its CFO practice. He has also worked for Mellon Asset Management as Chief Financial and Administrative Officer and for Morgan Stanley as Chief Administrative Officer. He was Cheif Operatingf Officer for KIPP NYC, a non-profit network of free, public charter schools.
Patrick is active at his parish, St. Catharine’s in Glen Rock, and its inter-parochial grammar school, Academy of Our Lady. Brennan has served as chair of the parish’s technology committee; as co-chair of Renew; as a member and chair of its buildings and grounds committee, and as vice president of the school advisory board. They have four children, three boys and a girl, ranging in age from 26 to 17.
He been active with Christian Life Community (CLC) in the New York area and nationally since they were engaged. CLC is a worldwide Ignatian lay association, formerly known as the Sodalities of Mary, whose members pray, discern and act to live out gospel values in their daily lives. He has served as national secretary of CLC-USA and he has led strategic planning and new community formation and worked with CLC Kenya to help fund education for Kibera AIDs orphans.