Board of Directors

Kenda B. Gonzales

With more than 30 years of executive financial and management experience leading corporations, Kenda B. Gonzales has been a a member of the board of directors at Perdoceo Education since 2016. Previously, she served as chief financial officer of Harrison Properties LLC, a Phoenix-based industrial real estate management company, for 10 years, as well as chief financial officer of Apollo Group, Inc. (now known as Apollo Education Group, Inc.) for eight years.

She has also held executive leadership positions at UDC Homes Inc. and Continental Homes Holding Corporation and began her career as a certified public accountant with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Company. With expertise in strategic planning and growth initiatives, Gonzales has led corporations through complex capital market transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and reorganizations/turnarounds.

Gonzales serves as a member of the advisory board of the Scottsdale branch of the First Western Trust Bank and formerly served as an independent member and chair of the audit committee of the board of directors of Main Street Restaurant Group, Inc., a former public company restaurant operator. She is a past chair of the audit committee and a community expert member of the Arizona Board of Regents. Active in her community, she is currently a member of the board of directors at Gigi’s Playhouse of Phoenix as the organization’s treasurer and previously served on the board of directors of Sojourner Center, Xavier College Preparatory and Phoenix Children’s Hospital.

A certified public accountant, Gonzales earned her Bachelor of Accountancy from the University of Oklahoma.