Patrick Kent is head of the small cap equities team, the lead portfolio manager for U.S. opportunistic equity strategies and head of the small mid cap equity research team. He joined Newton in September 2021, following the integration of Mellon Investments Corporation's equity and multi-asset capabilities into the Newton Investment Management Group. Before joining Newton, Kent was a senior portfolio manager at Mellon Investments Corporation (a BNY Mellon group company).

Earlier in his career, he was a portfolio manager at Wellington where he co-managed the firm's global all cap impact investing strategy. Prior to Wellington, Kent was an equity analyst with Alydar Capital, CR Intrinsic Investors and Schroders. He also spent four years with the Boston Company Asset Management, a BNY Mellon group company, on the opportunistic equity team.

Kent received a bachelor of arts from Bowdoin College and a master’s in business administration from Babson College's Franklin W. Olin graduate school of business. He received his chartered financial analyst designation in 2001 and is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society Boston. Kent holds the chartered market technician designation and is a member of the MT Association.