Bio

Kent is a co-founder of GulfStar and has more than 30 years of investment banking and corporate finance experience. Prior to 1990, he was a Senior Vice President and Director of Rotan Mosle Inc. from 1982 to 1990 and from 1977 to 1980 Manager of Investor Relations at Geosource Inc., an NYSE oil services company. From 1975 to 1977, Kent worked in the President Ford Administration as a Special Assistant to the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of the Interior. Kent has served on a number of public and private company boards as a representative of GulfStar's merchant banking activities and is currently a Director of SouthWaste Services, Inc., Una Vez Mas, LP (Advisory), Trinity Steel Fabricators, Inc. and Tideland Signal. Kent has an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania and an A.B. with honors from Brown University.