Kevin V. Earley joined Mairs & Power, Inc. in 2013 as Vice President, Equity Analyst and Investment Manager. Effective January 1, 2015, Mr. Earley was named co-manager of the Mairs & Power Balanced Fund. Mr. Earley began his investment career as an equity research analyst with FAF Advisors, later becoming a portfolio manager. In recent years, Mr. Earley had co-managed two mutual funds at Nuveen Asset Management. Mr. Earley earned a BS in Finance from Santa Clara University and then earned his MBA with a concentration in finance from the University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management. Mr.Earley is a CFA charterholder and is a member of the CFA Institute and CFA Society of Minnesota, as well as a Chartered Investment Counselor.

As an assistant portfolio manager, his responsibilities include analyzing credit, security classes, market trends, comparable yield and duration and relationships between different fixed-income sectors for taxable, asset-backed, municipal, agency and mortgage-backed securities. Brent assists the Director of Fixed Income with resource allocation, expense management, pricing/fee negotiations, product development and staffing. In 2021, he was promoted to Assistant Vice President. Prior to joining the firm, Brent was a Fixed Income Analyst at The Travelers Companies in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he worked for seven years. Brent holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management and an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He is a CFA charterholder.