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Mark Jensen brings a diverse background to his role as a partner and national director for venture capital services at Deloitte & Touche. Prior to joining Deloitte & Touche, Jensen was the CFO for Redleaf Group Inc., a venture capital firm providing services and capital for pre-seed and seed-stage technology companies. He joined Redleaf after serving as the Silicon Valley office managing partner and global high-technology industry leader for another Big 5 professional services firm and, in that capacity, was responsible for building that firm's technology-industry program worldwide. Jensen has worked on numerous IPOs and other security offerings and has also served an as audit partner for numerous companies in the venture capital, life sciences and information technology industries. Jensen has worked as an audit partner and business advisor to numerous companies including Flextronics, Iomega, Oracle, Cadence, Mayfield Venture Funds and Tallwood Venture Funds.
Jensen is well known in the technology and venture capital industries and has more than 30 years of experience providing audit and consulting services to venture capital firms and their portfolio companies. He is a frequent speaker on issues impacting early-stage venture capital backed companies and most recently has conducted numerous presentations to the venture capital community on the impact of the Sarbanes Oxley Act on early-stage pre-public companies. In addition; his current speaking engagements have included the annual meeting of the International Limited Partners Association (portfolio valuation issues); The Dartmouth Foster Center for Private Equity (Valuation issues and Model Form Limited Partnership Agreements) and the 2004 SEC Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation (Sarbanes Oxley impact on the venture capital industry.) He has recently been appointed to the SEC Advisory Committee on Smaller Public Companies, which has a charter to review the impact of regulation on smaller public companies and companies going public.
Active in the community, Jensen is the past chairman of the board of directors for the United Way of Silicon Valley; board member and treasurer for the National Conference for Community and Justice; a senior fellow in the American Leadership Forum of Silicon Valley; Chairman of the Board of the Silicon Valley Association of Start-up Entrepreneurs, and a member of the board of Joint Venture Silicon Valley.
Jensen earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colorado State University and a Bachelor of Science degree from Metropolitan State College of Denver. He has attended numerous post-graduate courses and executive-level seminars, including a CEO-level managing innovation program at Insead, Fontainebleau, France.
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