Mike Kent is a Managing Director at BellMark Partners, LLC and is primarily responsible for originating and executing investment banking assignments for the firm. With more than 20 years of investment banking experience, Mike has completed a range of transactions across business services, healthcare, consumer and industrial industries. Mike’s expertise includes advising family- and entrepreneur-owned businesses as well as private equity-backed enterprises on a range of strategic alternatives which include mergers & acquisitions, divestitures, recapitalizations, and capital raising & financings.

Prior to joining BellMark, Mike served as a Director at Covington Associates LLC, a boutique investment bank in Boston where he advised public and private companies in the healthcare, consumer & industrial, and business services sectors.

Mike began his professional career as a Management Consultant for Camp, Dresser & McKee Inc. (“CDM”), a leading environmental consulting firm headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At CDM, Mike focused on providing advisory services and financial evaluations to domestic and foreign municipalities.

Mike holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Harvard College, where he also lettered in varsity football. Mike lives in Manchester, Massachusetts with his wife and three children and spends his free time coaching youth sports, golfing, and playing tennis.