Jen has driven market growth for Fortune 500 companies like Mattel and Adobe (Photoshop Elements & Creative Cloud) and startups, where she helped disrupt consumer categories to gain quick traction, leading to attractive exits. She has spent the last 10 years guiding and advising entrepreneurs on go-to-market strategy, often mentoring their marketing and sales teams to long-term success. She co-founded and sold an enterprise Saas software company in 2021, and is currently invested in a broad portfolio of startups. As an Area Managing Partner for Chief Outsiders, the largest provider of fractional sales and marketing executives in the US, and as a certified speaker for Vistage, the world’s largest CEO coaching organization, Jen travels the country to support companies who are ready to accelerate growth.

Jen grew up on Maui and graduated from Baldwin High School in 1983 before earning a CS degree from Brown University and an MBA from Stanford. After 3 decades of marketing leadership on the continent, her work has brought her home to mentor companies for business accelerators in Hawaii. She has delivered workshops for Blue Startups, Purple Maia’s FoundHer, Mana Up, and UH Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship (PACE). She is also a Virtual professional in residence for UH PACE, a guest lecturer for UH marketing and innovation courses, and a judge for UH Venture Competition and Asia Pacific Marketing Case Competition.