Kent is a Senior Vice President and Co-Head of the Research and Manager Due Diligence Team, and focuses on market strategy, manager selection, fund due diligence and asset allocation.

Prior to joining Tiedemann, Kent worked as a fixed-income specialist with Millennium Partners LP, a New York-based hedge fund with more than $4 billion in assets under management. Kent’s responsibilities included financing high grade, high yield and international fixed-income portfolios, generating risk and profit/loss reports on derivatives portfolios and various other aspects of Millennium’s daily business operations. From 2001 to 2002, Kent was a client representative at MFS Investment Management in Boston, Massachusetts.

Kent holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. He is a member of the CFA Institute and the New York Society of Security Analysts. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kent currently resides in New York City with his wife and two daughters.