Mads Jensen, CFA, CAIA, CIPM, CIFD, FRM
Copenhagen
jensen@alpha-gp.com
+45 23 23 80 86
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Mads Jensen

Summary

Mads is an experienced senior manager within the asset management industry and with a background in management of international private banking and wealth management businesses and retail and institutional sales of investment products. Clients appreciate his respectful, honest and pragmatic to-the-point approach, his ongoing self-development, and regulatory awareness.

Testimonial

Risk Manager, London: “… impressive to be able to work with a board member whose grasp of valuation issues and fixed income markets were both wide and steeped in practitioner knowledge”

Key Experience

10+ years developing and distributing mutual and hedge funds across Europe, development and management cross-border investment advisory and private banking businesses, vast board room experience across jurisdictions, asset classes, investment strategies and manager stages

Career

• Professional Director and Consultant, 2012- (currently active in/with boards overlooking illiquidity, ILS, pension funds, private equity)
• Managing Partner  Jentzen & Partner, 2017-. Pan-Scandinavian asset management advisory firm for pensions funds 
• Head of Group Wealth Management (AuM EUR 100bn), Danske Bank Group, 2008-11, Head of International Sales, 2006-08, Head of Product Development, 2003-06, Product Manager, 2000-03, Danske Capital
• Bond Dealer, BG Bank, 1998-2000

Education

• Executive M Business Administration (Carnegie Mellon), M Business Administration (Geneva), MSc International Business, BSc Managerial Economics and Business Administration (both Copenhagen)
• CFA, CIFD, CAIA, CIPM, executive education at Swiss Finance Institute and Wharton

Extracurricular

• Languages: English, Danish, German, Norwegian, Swedish
• Ranked in the top 40 of European wealth management executives below 40 by Financial News, June 2010   
• Won Euromoney awards for best private bank in Denmark, Norway and the Nordic region – 2008, 2009 and 2011
• External Associate Professor in Finance at the Copenhagen Business School
• Committee Chairman CFA Society Denmark