Eli Kent

Managing Partner
Moody Aldrich Partners, LLC

Eli is co-Managing Partner of Moody Aldrich Partners (MAP), an SEC registered investment advisor that has provided investment strategies to sophisticated clients for over 30 years. The firm operates as an extension of the partners’ family office. Eli leads the firm’s overall business strategy and is responsible for profitably growing the business through development of affiliates. His firm has evolved from a traditional asset manager to a multi-boutique company with shared non-investment business services. Identifying and cultivating investment talent and developing strategic partnerships and business ventures is a hallmark of the firm’s heritage. Owners of MAP provide a permanent source of capital that has been used for working capital and seed capital to numerous investment strategies. The structure of the firm’s entrepreneurial activities has taken various forms, such as lift-outs, acquisitions, joint ventures and seeding/acceleration deals. While each opportunity has its own unique attributes, every endeavor pursued creates shared incentives and alignment of interests behind a common vision of building a premier investment organization. Seeded firms include: kWantix, LLC (electricity trading), Clearance Capital (European L/S real estate), Eastern Shore (US small cap), Boardman Bay (Tech PE and L/S equity), Ecofin (renewable energy L/S equity), Global Value Advisors (int’l equities).