Kent Madsen is a Managing Director of EPIC Venture Fund, and has been a venture capitalist investing in seed and early-stage technology companies for more than a decade.  Previously Kent was a Managing Director of Wasatch Venture Fund a firm with four funds, approximately $200 million under management, and investments in 70 companies.

While at Wasatch, Kent also served as CEO of MACC Private Equities (NASDQ: MACC) and its wholly owned subsidiary MorAmerica Capital, one of the nation’s oldest and most well-known late-stage SBIC companies that has provided sub-debt and equity financing of more than $90 million to approximately 120 companies.

Previously, Kent worked for Ford Motor Company.  He initially was in the Advanced Technology Group where he developed mathematical and computational models for optimizing vehicles’ aerodynamic and thermodynamic properties and systems. He then transferred to Ford's China Operations. Prior to working for Ford, as a graduate student, Mr. Madsen taught Engineering Thermodynamics at the University of Michigan.

Kent has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from the University of Pennsylvania. He has a M.S.E. from the University of Michigan and an M.A. in International Studies from the the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Madsen also received an M.B.A. from Wharton school of business.

Currently, Kent is responsible for the oversight of the following Epic portfolio companies: Pivot Solutions, Q Therapeutics, Zettacore, Everspin, S5 Wireless. His past oversight responsibilities include: Divx (Divx), Netcentives (NCNT), Lefthand Networks (acquired by Hewlett Packard – HPQ), Cerberian (acquired by Bluecoat Systems - BCSI), Advanced Software (acquired Embarcadero Technologies - EMBT), Navitel (acquired by Open TV - OPTV) and Everdream (acquired by DELL).