Technology >> CEO Interviews >> August 9, 2001
KENT D. KALKWARF is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
of Charter Communications. Mr. Kalkwarf joined Charter Communications in
July 1995 as Vice President-Finance and Acquisitions. He was promoted to
Senior Vice President-Mergers and Acquisitions in 1996; and named Senior
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in 1997. Mr. Kalkwarf was
promoted to Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in
August 2000. He has been instrumental in growing Charter through
acquisitions funded by very successful financing activities, including
one of the nation's largest IPOs ' the largest media IPO in history and
various recent high yield and equity financings. Prior to joining
Charter, Mr. Kalkwarf was a Senior Tax Manager for Arthur Andersen,
Certified Public Accountants. With Arthur Andersen, Mr. Kalkwarf gained
extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions and partnership
formations in the consumer product, real estate and cable television
industries. Mr. Kalkwarf also headed the international tax practice for
Arthur Andersen in St. Louis, Missouri. He was involved with
international acquisitions and divestitures and significant foreign tax
credit planning. Mr. Kalkwarf, a Certified Public Accountant, received
his Bachelor's degree, with honors, from Illinois Wesleyan University. Profile
Mr. Kalkwarf: Charter has its roots as an entrepreneurial company
founded in 1993, but we actually go back much further to a
