{"id":10133,"date":"2023-01-26T15:00:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T20:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bhr\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=10133"},"modified":"2023-01-30T16:39:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T21:39:02","slug":"10133","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bhr\/profile\/10133\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Public board director, economist, and Wall Street consumer strategist, <\/span><b>Steve Kent<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has spent his career helping companies identify and position untapped value by leveraging the interplay between business performance and investor motivation<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He recently served as board director, audit committee financial expert, and ESG leader for <\/span><b>Extended Stay America<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (NYSE:STAY), where he leveraged capital markets and consumer expertise to help shepherd the company through a range of strategic maneuvers, and finally its sale to private equity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Steve spent most of his career at <\/span><b>Goldman Sachs &amp; Co<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (NYSE:GS), where he advised IPO issuers on value identification, Wall Street positioning, and exit strategy development; initiated coverage on 180+ companies engaged in global corporate finance activities; and was also recognized eight times as \u201cbest stock picker\u201d by <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Wall Street Journal; <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and appeared or was cited more than 100 times in media such as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The New York Times,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> CNBC, and NBC.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He has spoken, guest lectured, or taught at institutions including Columbia University, NYU, and Molloy College, as well as industry organizations World Travel &amp; Tourism Council, and Pension Real Estate Association.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Steve holds a Ph.D. in hospitality management from Iowa State University, an MBA from NYU\u2019s Stern School of Business, and a bachelor of arts in economics, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">magna cum laude,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from SUNY at Stony Brook, as well as the CFA designation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Connect with him at linkedin.com\/in\/stevenerickent.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21307,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bhr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bhr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bhr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bhr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bhr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10136,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bhr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10133\/revisions\/10136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bhr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}