Malinda Gentry
Analytics drives faster insights, applying advanced algorithms across structured and unstructured financial, commercial and operational data for decisive actions throughout the transaction life cycle.

Malinda Gentry

EY Global Strategy and Transactions Analytics Leader

Passionate about innovation. Early adopter of new and disruptive technology. Focused on helping individuals build sustainable and meaningful careers. Loves travel, scuba diving and salsa dancing.

A transformational analytics professional with a focus on growth strategy and market dynamics, Malinda is the EY Global Strategy and Transactions Analytics Leader.

In her role, she is responsible for helping clients transform their businesses, reduce risk and help accelerate value by leveraging big data and analytics to drive capital strategy and transaction decision making.

Prior to joining EY in 2015, she held several leadership roles with a multinational technology company and led complex digital transformation engagements with clients in the media, telecommunications and energy industries.

Malinda serves on the board of GirlForward and is the Vice President of Fundraising for the Chicago chapter of Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

She earned her BS in Engineering from the University of Michigan and her MBA from Cornell University.

How Malinda is building a better working world

“Businesses around the world are collecting unprecedented amounts of data, structured and unstructured, in volumes and speeds unimaginable just a few years ago – yet expected to increase. In my work with clients, I focus on helping companies harness that data and turn it into actionable insights in today’s increasingly complex M&A environment to gain a competitive edge in deal-making.”

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