Steven Kent Biography and Net Worth

Steven P. Kent has been an Independent Director of Byline Bancorp, Inc. and Byline Bank since June 2019. Mr. Kent retired as Vice Chairman and a managing director of the Financial Services Group at Piper Sandler Companies (formerly Piper Jaffray Companies), where he focused on merger and acquisition advisory and capital market transactions for financial services companies. Prior to joining Piper Sandler, Mr. Kent co-founded and served as President of River Branch Capital from March 2011 through its sale to Piper Jaffray in September 2015. At River Branch, Mr. Kent advised client banking companies on capital management, equity recapitalizations, merger & acquisition transactions and private equity executions where, in select instances, affiliates of River Branch acted as an investing principal. From August 1998 through March 2011, Mr. Kent was a managing director and co-head of the Chicago office of Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (“KBW”), a boutique investment bank and broker-dealer that specializes in the financial services sector, providing institutional and private investors and financial services companies with equity sales and trading, capital raising and strategic advisory services. Prior to joining KBW, Mr. Kent was an executive officer with Robert W. Baird and Co. (“Baird”) for 16 years, where he led strategic planning, fixed income capital markets and structured finance, and headed the firm’s Financial Services Investment Banking practice. In addition to serving on Baird’s board of directors, Mr. Kent also was a member of the operating and capital committees. From 1973 to 1982, Mr. Kent was an executive officer at two Midwestern multibank holding companies focusing on strategic planning, bank and trust investment portfolio management, asset and liability management, and commercial and government guaranteed credit origination. From 2012 to 2018, Mr. Kent served as a director and member of the finance and nominating committees of IFF, a Midwest-focused Community Development Financial Institution (“CDFI”) certified by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, which serves as a missiondriven lender, real estate consultant and developer that helps communities thrive by creating opportunities for low-income communities and people with disabilities. In January 2019, Mr. Kent was elected to join the board of the Community Reinvestment Fund, USA (“CRF”), a CDFI with a national small business lending mission-driven strategy headquartered in Minneapolis, MN. In 2020, Mr. Kent was elected to be a founding director of Ignify Technologies, a Public Benefit Corporation formed by CRF to commercialize its Spark Technology Platform to integrate and digitize the small business lending ecosystem. In 2023, Mr. Kent was elected to join the board of Ampersand Inc., a Midwest-based financial services firm who is dedicated to addressing the distinctive treasury management needs of both financial institutions and depositors.