Kent Weaver is the Founder, CEO and Managing Member of Granite Point Partners. Kent has invested in over 80 middle market companies as an individual investor and with Granite Point. Kent has partnered with entrepreneurs to build successful businesses such as VRI (remote patient monitoring), Discover Outsourcing (HR outsourcing), Fieldedge (field technician software), mTab (database tool), Neuro International (brain trauma residential), Integra (health provider network), and CALO (teen mental health), along with many other investments.

In addition to Granite Point, Kent is currently Executive Chairman and former CEO at a Northern California-based home health care company acquired using a self-funded search fund model.  Previously, Kent has held executive positions in marketing and product management for a VC-backed marketing automation startup, as a regional CFO and business analyst in Pepsico’s Pizza Hut Division, and as a management consultant at Ernst & Young. Kent has served on over 25 boards spanning countless industries, including health care, software, business services and consolidation strategies. Kent is presently an Adjunct Professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Kent received his MBA at the University of California, Los Angeles and a BS in finance from the University of Southern California.