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Managing Director, Head of Family Office Coverage
Matt Kentner is a Managing Director at Stephens Inc. and leads Stephens’ Family Office Coverage Group in Investment Banking. Matt is based in Little Rock, AR and joined Stephens in 2006. A former member of the Technology banking team at Stephens, he has nearly 30 years of investment banking/M&A and client service experience. Matt and the Family Office Coverage Group focus on family offices seeking direct investment opportunities in the middle and lower market. Stephens’ network not only includes single-family offices but also multi-family offices, independent sponsors, RIAs and other institutional investors that operate with a long-term, flexible approach that mirrors the Family Office model. Prior to joining Stephens, he was a Senior Manager in Deloitte’s M&A Transaction Services Group in New York.
