Trent Holmes joins Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center as chief financial officer

BATON ROUGE, La. – Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center is pleased to announce that Trent Holmes has joined Mary Bird Perkins as its new chief financial officer.

Holmes has over a decade of public accounting and private industry experience, with a particular specialization in financial management experience in the healthcare field. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Louisiana State University, both with a specialization in accounting.

Most recently, he served as the chief executive officer of the Bone & Joint Clinic of Baton Rouge, where he provided leadership to the physician partners and over 200 staff employees. He had previously served as the clinic’s chief financial officer, where he was responsible for all activities related to financial accounting, including financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, accounting systems and shareholder and employee compensation.

Holmes is also a certified public accountant.

“We’re pleased to welcome Trent to the Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center team,” said Jonas Fontenot, PhD, MBA, Mary Bird Perkins president and CEO. “His extensive financial expertise in the healthcare industry, as well as his leadership experience, will prove tremendously beneficial for our organization as we continue to grow and evolve.”