We have extensive experience serving the needs of both established corporations and smaller clients at all levels of management. Our consultants are equally comfortable working with Boards of Directors to recruit Chief Executive Officers, as well as recruiting specialized engineers and mid-level executives.

Our clients include both Fortune 100 giants and the smaller regional companies that make up the life blood of our local business community — and more than half of our business comes from return clients.

WE STRIVE FOR EXCELLENCE. WE ACHIEVE RESULTS.

BRUCE JENSEN
Co-founder Bruce Jensen has been a mainstay in the Seattle executive search community since the mid-1970s. With over 25 years of executive search experience, Bruce has led over three hundred successful search assignments, including more than fifty President and CEO searches where the position reported directly to a Board of Directors. Some recent clients include Esterline Technologies, Security Properties Inc., Globe Manufacturing, Lorig Development, and Gensco.

A graduate of Washington State University, Bruce served as a helicopter pilot with the U.S. Marine Corps in Vietnam from 1969-1970. In 1971 he returned to Seattle to begin his career in human resources management with King County and later with RSR Corporation. In 1975 he joined a local executive search firm where he spent nine years, the last five as manager of the technical recruiting division.

In 1983 Bruce co-founded Jensen, Oldani & Cooper, Inc., now Jensen & Cooper, Inc. Since then he has led the firm and built its reputation on the principles of value, ethics, and professionalism. He remains professionally active and involved in the community. A pioneer of the skills-based recruiting specification, Bruce is certified in competency profiling for executives.

An avid golfer, Bruce resides in Bellevue with his wife, Pat.

DICK JENSEN
With over 35 years of experience, Dick Jensen has been a mainstay in the Seattle area high technology community. Since the early 1970s, Dick has held senior engineering and marketing positions. In this capacity he has employed and mentored numerous key high technology marketing executives, software & design engineers that have subsequently gone on to highly successful careers at flagship companies.

In 1979 Dick was appointed vice president of engineering for ATEX Corporation where the software technology emerged for electronic publishing. The staff Dick recruited went on to author well known products at future companies. In 1982 Dick co-founded CADDEX Corporation. As a Co-founder & CTO he built a team that developed object oriented pagination and storage systems. CADDEX later became SOROS. Subsequently, he spent 10 years as the Vice President of New Product & Business Development at Applied Microsystems. Here he assembled an engineering and marketing team which led the company to become the leading microprocessor tools provider in the world.

In the late 80’s, Dick was elected to the Washington Software Association’s Board of Directors where he chaired the committee that was charged with developing the organization's member and services portfolio. Dick served 10 years with the WSA as it grew to be one of the nation’s most effective associations.

Dick has been active in Strategic Planning as the principal in O’Keefe-Jensen Associates, Inc. and has also served on the Bellevue Chamber of Commerce International Committee as a Chair. For two years he served as a board member of the Pacific Telecommunications Council, an organization representing the telephone companies of the Pacific Rim.

 




Representing our Corporate Practice:

>  BRUCE JENSEN
bjensen@jensencooper.com

>  DICK JENSEN
djensen@jensencooper.com
JENSEN & COOPER