Professional Experience

Cindy Kent is a director of investment performance standards in the CFA Institute Centre for Financial Market Integrity. She is responsible for developing, promulgating, and maintaining the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS). Her primary roles include managing the global adoption and alignment of country-specific investment performance standards to the GIPS standards; developing educational and training products to promote the GIPS standards; and serving as staff liaison to the various committees addressing specific issues of the GIPS standards, including the GIPS Executive Committee (EC), GIPS Council, EMEA Regional Investment Performance Subcommittee (RIPS), Investor / Consultant Subcommittee, Promotion & Awareness Subcommittee, and the EC Nominations Committee. 

Prior to joining CFA Institute in 1993, Mrs. Kent served in various capacities in the securities industry with an investment management firm (Darrell & King) and a bank trust department (Central Fidelity Bank).