Kent Gold – Founder of Arena Sports. Arena Sports operates 5 indoor soccer facilities in the Northwest United States and Canada. Kent started and grew the company to five facilities in 5 years. One industry vendor that works with many indoor soccer facilities around the country recently stated that the original Arena Sports, in terms of profit and revenue, is the most successful single-arena facility he knows of, in the country.

Kent possesses an Engineering degree and an MBA. His background includes 12 years with Boeing designing airplanes and business managing software. He also works with the SBA consulting small businesses and has lectured at Seattle University. Kent’s expertise includes business plan development, facility operations, site selection and new facility construction.

Kent recently turned over the day to day of Arena Sports to his partner and now focuses full time on helping indoor soccer facility operators around the country. His clients include the largest operators of indoor soccer facilities in the country as well as some single facility start-ups. Kent played and coached indoor soccer for many years before he opened Arena Sports and still enjoys playing, He has developed an operations philosophy centered around the customer experience that has proven very successful.