Kent Payne

Kent Payne is distinguished as a business operator and leader in the areas of sales, commercial manufacturing, and product development. He has extensive executive experience in M&A as well as successfully running start up, growth and turn around businesses. Ken has demonstrated leadership in both Fortune 500 and Private Equity environments and led Angel investment in PDS Biotechnology (PDSB:NASDAQ). He combines strong business leadership, successful P&L track record, and technical background to strategically lead and grow enterprise value across Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical market segments. He has successfully led the geographic expansion of businesses into Europe, Asia, and South America in addition to the United States. Kent currently serves as CEO for BioDuro-Sundia, an Advent International company, as well as a board member for Goodwin Biotechnologies, a Signet Healthcare company.

Kent earned his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry at Brigham Young University