Kent Hudson
Chairman of the Board
Kent brings unique perspective and experience to bear when guiding the strategic vision as Chairman of the Board for FacilityDude. Along with Lee Prevost, Kent saw the opportunity to revolutionize educational system operations, facility and maintenance management, and IT operations by using the power of the Internet. Together, they founded SchoolDude (our sister company) in 1999 and started the journey of providing educational administrators with powerful and innovative solutions for facility and maintenance management, IT management and a wide range of business processes.
Background Information
Kent was the Founder and CEO of Applied Computer Technologies, "ACT". ACT dominated the CMMS education market with the ACT 1000 System from the mid-1980's until the late 1990's. After ACT was acquired by CP&L, Kent went on to be the CEO and President of Indus International, which was the largest maintenance management and enterprise asset management software company in the world. Kent saw the opportunity to revolutionize educational system operations, facility and maintenance management by using the power of the internet. Kent founded SchoolDude in 1999 and started the journey of providing educational administrators with powerful and innovated solutions to operations and facility management. In addition to his role as Chairman of FacilityDude.com, he currently serves as CEO of SchoolDude.com.
Education
Kent graduated with honors in 1975 from North Carolina State University with degrees in both Chemical Engineering and Pulp and Paper Science and Technology. He continued his education at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington by taking a wide range of business courses, while working as an engineer. As he moved into the software business and into management, he has remained dedicated to lifelong learning through on-going study, seminars and professional development programs.
Personal Information
Kent has three wonderful kids, as well as a very special granddaughter, and loves spending time with family and friends. He loves working at SchoolDude because it maintains a balance between employees, clients and business, and also because he gets to work with many of his best friends each day.
