Louis Wendling, CLU, MBA
President
Louis was born and raised in Alsace, France and came to Minnesota as an intern while completing his MBA degree from Institut Européen d'Etudes Commerciales Supérieures, Université de Strasbourg, Alsace.
He has been in the Insurance and Financial services industry for more than 40 years and has a Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) degree (Master's in Insurance) from American College, Bryn Mawr, PA.
In 1991 he opened Wendling Financial Group, LLC, a retirement & estate planning firm in Eden Prairie, MN. Since inception, we have grown our practice to over 1,200 clients.
Louis' main philosophy revolves around the idea that all people are important. In that context, he believes that everyone deserves personal attention to their financial challenges, goals, and well-being in life. Everything Wendling Financial Group does begins with this simple yet important concept.
He is fluent in 5 languages and has been a longtime member of French American & German American Chambers of Commerce, serving on the Board of Directors of both organizations and the Past President of the French American Chamber of Commerce. In 2010 he became a knight of the Deutscher Ritter Orden Sankt Georg.
Hobbies include reading, traveling with his wife, Patti, photography, music, hiking and wine collecting.