Ranon Kent
Managing Director
Houlihan Lokey
Ranon Kent is a managing director in Houlihan Lokey’s Global Business Services group. He is in his 18th year at Houlihan Lokey and has been working in the industry for almost 25 years. He has deep industry expertise in testing & compliance businesses in addition to utility services businesses. Kent founded and developed what has become the leading testing & compliance advisory practice in the US with a particular specialty in food safety. He has advised four leading food safety businesses over the last 12 months including advising Southern California based Hygiena in its sale to German based EW Group in addition to the recent sales of Foodchain ID, FlexXray and Registrar Corp.
Kent is one of the senior leaders of Houlihan Lokey’s Los Angeles Corporate Finance team of 80 bankers and Business Services team of 27 bankers.
