Kent Wegrzyn joined ACA in 2007 and currently serves as a Partner and Head of Core Accounts. In this role, he leads a team of Account Executives overseeing relationships with ACA’s core group of clients. His team is responsible for building and maintaining strong relationships with existing clients, and driving revenue growth by solutioning client needs with ACA’s broad set of relevant products and services.
Kent previously served as a leader in ACA’s Private Markets Practice. In this capacity, he scoped, managed and delivered products and solutions to managers of private equity, real estate, venture capital, and other types of commitment-based private funds. He also worked on private equity product development and enhancement, business development initiatives, and building out ACA’s private equity infrastructure and subject matter expertise.
Kent joined ACA as a Compliance Consultant where he coordinated the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of customized compliance programs for clients. Kent also prepared investment firms for registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission and conducted mock SEC inspections to help these firms identify and address their unique compliance and operational risks.
Prior to joining ACA, Kent served as a securities compliance examiner at the SEC’s Chicago regional office, where he was hired under the federal government’s Outstanding Scholar Program. While at the SEC, he led and/or participated in over 50 examinations of investment advisers, hedge funds, and investment companies. Several of these exams prompted referrals to the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, the Internal Revenue Service, and the United States Attorney General for further investigation.
Kent earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has also been awarded the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designation and is a member of the CAIA Association.
