About JCM

The Jensen Capital Management group – JCM – was founded by Mads Jensen in 2012 with the mission to provide value-added governance and consultancy services to the investment management industry.

Mads Jensen is an experienced senior manager within the asset management industry, with a background in management of international private banking and wealth management businesses and retail and institutional sales of investment products.

Career

Since 1998 Mads has worked in the investment management industry starting in bond trading, moving to institutional sales, project management, product development, fund distribution and finally wealth management, where he headed the private banking and wealth management operations of the Danske Bank group from 2008 to 2011. In this period Danske Bank won several awards, among others the Euromoney Best Private Bank in Denmark, Norway, and the Nordic region in 2008, 2009 and 2011. His fund rating team also won the Nordic Fund Award in 2011.

From 2003 to 2011 he additionally served as a board member in fund companies, hedge funds and asset management subsidiaries of the Danske Bank group.

Education

Mads graduated with a Master of Science in International Business from the Copenhagen Business School in 1998. He took an MBA at the University of Geneva in 2006 and an executive MBA from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University in 2007. Mads earned the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation in 2002, the Chartered Alternative Investments Analyst (CAIA) charter in 2008, a Certificate in Senior Bank Management from the Swiss Finance Institute in 2012, the Certificate in Investment Performance Measurement (CIPM) in 2012, the Certified Investment Fund Director designation in 2017, the Financial Risk Manager certification in 2019 and the Certificate in ESG Investing in 2020.

Mads was ranked in the top 40 of European wealth management executives below 40 by Financial News in 2010.

Current work

Today Mads serves as independent non-executive director in fund companies and hedge funds across the world. He is also the founding partner of the investment consultancy firm Jentzen & Partners, which provides investment advisory services to institutional investors. Additionally, he is an external associate professor at the Copenhagen Business School and an active committee member in the Danish CFA Society.

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