Brad Gentry

Brad Gentry is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Gentry Professional Services. A native of Benton, Arkansas, Brad holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Arkansas. He earned an MBA from the University of Maryland and six graduate certificates from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Brad is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Certified Contingent Workforce Professional (CCWP). He worked as a systems engineer and program manager at Northrop Grumman in Baltimore, Maryland, and has over 20 years’ experience designing and testing Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems. In 2013 he founded Odyssey Consulting, an engineering consulting firm serving the aerospace and defense industry. In 2021 he expanded the scope of that company to also serve the energy, healthcare, and IT sectors, rebranding the company as Gentry Professional Services. Its mission is to help clients across all sectors to preserve the institutional knowledge that is often lost in our evolving workforce. Brad currently serves on the Leadership Council of the National Small Business Association and the University of Arkansas College of Engineering Dean’s Advisory Council. He is the Arkansas Section Vice Chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the President of the Arkansas Academy of Electrical Engineering.