Melissa J. Kent

Ms. Kent is Co-founder and Board Chair of The Office Group, a non-profit in Bend, Oregon providing low income high school students with college counseling, tutoring and social mentorship. She also serves on other non-profit boards and is an active business and real estate investor. Prior to her current endeavors, Ms. Kent was CFO of Stadium Capital Management, LLC for 15 years. Before joining Stadium, she worked in finance at Calyx & Corolla, a direct mail company in San Francisco and spent several years in Corporate Finance at Kidder, Peabody & Co. in both New York and San Francisco.

Ms. Kent earned a B.S. in Business Administration at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business in 1987 and graduated with a M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1993.