Phoenix Trent is the CEO of Englebright Trent, a boutique corporate development and strategic advisory firm serving high-net-worth family offices, luxury brands, and institutional funds. As a member of the Deloitte partner network and trained in values-based philanthropy with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Trent delivers integrated advisory across corporate strategy, high-value capital deployment, and philanthropic governance.

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Named in honor of Trent’s great-uncle, Steven Englebright — a longtime Suffolk County Legislator and former New York State Assemblyman — Englebright Trent reflects a family legacy of public service merged with modern enterprise growth. Trent approaches every objective with the gravity, discipline, and rigorous stewardship characteristic of his background.

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Through Englebright Trent, Trent executes high-stakes corporate development, advising on M&A strategy, luxury brand partnerships, private equity growth, and high-value asset portfolio oversight — including direct advisory for the Woods Point Fund family office investment vehicle. Simultaneously, he structures values-aligned philanthropic frameworks and long-term family legacy planning.

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In addition to his professional advisory work, Trent serves in strategic corporate development capacities for civic organizations and mission-driven initiatives, advancing public-private partnerships and institutional growth.

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A descendant of foundational American families — with lineage recorded in the Millennium File, encompassing early colonial governors, U.S. presidents, early settlers, and Revolutionary War patriots — Trent holds active memberships in the General Society of Mayflower Descendants (GSMD), the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (NSSAR), and the Colonial Order of the Acorn (COA). He carries a legacy deeply anchored in historic statecraft alongside sovereign European houses, tracing ancestral roots across both maternal and paternal lines to major dynastic houses, including the House of Windsor, the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the House of Hanover, the House of Spencer, the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, the House of Bourbon, the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, the House of Stuart, the Plantagenet dynasty, and the Capetian house of France.

 

This dual heritage is reflected in his active participation across historical and modern American and European hereditary, patriotic, armorial, and royal societies — including the General Society of Mayflower Descendants (GSMD), the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (NSSAR), the Colonial Order of the Acorn (COA), The Heraldry Society (FHS), The White Lion Society, The Armorial of the Bee, the Royal Society of St. George, the Royal Guelphic Order, the Association d'Entraide de la Noblesse Française (ANF), the Sovereign Colonial Society Americans of Royal Descent (SCSARD), the Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America, the Society of Descendants of Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, The Baronial Order of Magna Charta, Capedia (La Descendance Capétienne), the Order of the Monarchs of Rheims, The Royal Tudor Society, The Stuart Society, the Society of King Charles the Martyr, The Guild of St. Margaret of Scotland, The Order of the Merovingian Dynasty, The Augustan Society, and The Plantagenet Society — alongside armorial records and genealogical registrations recognized by the College of Arms, honoring an enduring legacy of royal, noble, and ancestral heritage, constitutional foundation, and traditional heraldic culture.

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Outside of his professional work, Trent has a deep appreciation for art and museums, jazz and chamber music, and enjoys riding, skiing, tennis, and fencing.

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