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Kent Kaufman, MS, M.S.E
Chief Executive Officer

Kent Kaufman brings Leadership and stellar business experience to Growth &
Leadership Center. Kent's work history covers the business gamut including senior levels of engineering, sales, marketing, operations and business development.
Kent has excelled working with businesses of small, medium and large sized companies and has driven business with companies at all stages.

Prior to joining GLC in 2004, Kent led Dana Software through building business opportunities, mergers and acquisitions and strategic partnerships. In January 2002, Kent served as Executive Vice President of Business Development for MessageHero an Internet start-up, which created an innovative unified messaging platform. Kent wore many hats during its start-up phase ranging from business model creation to product development to raising capital.

Prior to that Kent was Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing for EDC, a leading data storage and industry equipment manufacturer. He was responsible for worldwide revenues, as well as strategic partnerships, joint ventures and special projects with international large-cap companies throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States.

Kent was a key member of the management team that took Nashua's Computer Products Division private, and then public through the IPO of Stormedia, where he oversaw all product and process development.
Earlier in his career, Kent spent over 12 years at IBM, where he was groomed for leadership and high level management, while taking on technical roles for the computer storage and peripherals business.
Kent graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Science degree in Materials Science and from Stanford University with a Masters of Science degree in Engineering