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Thomas Jensen

Mr. Jensen is a co-founder of Enterprise Futures Network. He has more than 20 years of experience in entrepreneurship, business and technology consulting. He has founded venture-backed startups and led major clean technology consulting practices.

Headline: Service Provider
Work status: Employed Full-Time
Website: http://www.enterprisefutures.net
Industries: Cleantech, Information Technology, Nanotech
Skills: Business, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Public speaking, Recruitment
Location: San Francisco BayArea
Groups: BASES E-Challenge 2010, BASES Social E-Challenge Alumni Network, Berkeley-Stanford CleanTech Conference, California Clean Tech Open, Center for Technology Innovation and Community Engagement, CleanTech Circle Forum, CUTEC, Desafío Intel® Argentina, E-Challenge Competition 2008, E-Challenge Competition 2009, Energy Crossroads, Enterprise Futures Network (EFN) , Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society, Global Social Venture Competition 2009-10, Ignite Clean Energy (ICE), Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship (IECE), Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC ), Social e-challenge Competition 2009 [inactive], Social e-challenge Mentors 2009 , SV Factor, UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition 2009-2010, Warwick Entrepreneurs, [INACTIVE] UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition 2008-2009, [OLD] Social e-challenge Competition 2008 [INACTIVE]
Interested in: Advising startups, Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding experts, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Getting press, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping members of my groups, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Participating in a competition, Partnering with other groups, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Recruiting, Recruiting for my startup
Tags: building the network for people supporting sustainable ventures and technologies, finding business partners, finding cofounders, finding team mates, global social venture competition and other programs we support, helping organizations explore ideas and strategies for socially responsible enpreneurship., including clean tech, including recruiting volunteer mentors and judges for the stanford, meeting new people, supporting university entreprenerial programs, uc berkeley
Schools: Claremont Consortium of Colleges - Claremont Graduate University, University of California System - Los Angeles

FULL BIO

Mr. Jensen has more than 20 years of experience in entrepreneurship, business and technology consulting focusing on policy, strategy, management and operational consulting in the utility/energy, technology, manufacturing and governmental markets. Mr. Jensen founded a clean-tech venture backed startup as a spin-off from SAIC, a Fortune 500 company, advised startups in IT, energy, materials, and public-private partnerships in the US and Mexico. He has advised more than 50 large companies including AT&T, Bayer, Bank of America, Chevron, Dow, Sony, Safeway, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), Kaiser Permanente, General Motors and Toyota as well as federal and state governmental agencies, including U.S. EPA, Department of Energy, and State of California agencies, and many US major cities.
Mr. Jensen has lectured on the sustainability, the environment and entrepreneurship at Stanford University and the University of California including two years as a core lecturer for UC Berkeley’s Venture Design Program where he specialized in financial planning and clean technology. He has presented at several conferences on sustainability including those on Eco-Efficiency and Industrial Ecology convened by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the White House Conference on Pollution Prevention. Mr. Jensen has published articles on technology, business and environment in various publications including Red Herring Magazine, written books on clean technologies, sustainable communities, and California environmental and development laws and pollution prevention, and served as a judge and advisor to socially-responsible business plan competitions at Stanford University and UC Berkeley.

EDUCATION

University: Claremont Consortium of Colleges - Claremont Graduate University
Time period: 1990
Degree: Publc Policy, MA

University: University of California System - Los Angeles
Time period: 1983
Degree: Economics , BA

PUBLICATIONS

Articles: Mr. Jensen has published articles, papers and books on clean technologies (including in Red Herring Magazine), sustainable communities, California environmental and development laws and pollution prevention.

Thomas is Following (12)

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  • Skipso - The Cleantech Platform

    Skipso is an innovative online platform and vertical business to business marketplace that aggregates Cleantech professionals and businesses globally providing them with a new channel to carry out their business and unleash sustainable innovation.

  • Clean Tech Zone

    News, directory & industry portal. Includes the Clean Energy Evaluator: an information product like http://wikimatrix.org enabling organizations to evaluate alternate clean energy products in reference to their own needs. A lead up to Clean Zap.

  • Technology Education Connecting Cultures (TECC)

    Funded by Goldman Sachs, HSBC, and others, TECC is a non-profit organization devoted to carrying out social ventures focused on technology and education coordinated by socially-minded students from the United States and China.

  • Academic Impact

    A new kind of tutoring company.

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  • Inoh Choe

    Currently pursuing Marketing and Psychology degree at University of Notre Dame and working at Notre Dame Social Studies Department.

  • Carlo Soresina

    I am the founder of Skipso, a B2B marketplace focused on cleantech innovation. I am passionate about the disruptive force of the Internet and see a huge potential in leveraging the web to address the challenges posed by Climate Change.