Gene R. Tremblay

Position on NOLS Board of Trustees: Chairman Emeritus
Elected to NOLS Board of Trustees: 1992, 2000

Gene, Chairman Emeritus of the NOLS Board of Trustees, went to Mount Everest in 1994 as a sponsor of the Sagarmatha Expedition with NOLS instructors, Scott Fisher and Steve Goryl.

Tremblay has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and was recently awarded the NJIT Distinguished Alumni award. In 1969 he received an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School. In 1972 Tremblay received his Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Tremblay was a founding partner and director of Equity Research and Trading during his 34-year career at Wellington Management Company in Boston. He was given the opportunity to ring the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange in recognition for his contribution to the investment business. Tremblay is a trustee of the Murie Center, a member of the NPCA (National Parks Conservation Association), Northern Rockies Advisory Board, and he was a member of the corporations and the finance committees of the Boston Children’s Service and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.

Tremblay and his wife have two children, both of whom are NOLS graduates. He loves skiing, cycling, mountaineering, and collects baseball cards and old Lionel trains. He also loves car racing and has driven on many of the world’s most famous racetracks. Tremblay ended his ten-year triathlon career in 1991 when he competed in the Hawaiian Ironman competition. His most recent adventure was an expedition to Denali in June, 2004, led by Jim Ferguson. Gene climbed to 17,200 feet and five expedition members successfully summited the peak. He resides in Boston and Jackson Hole, Wyoming.