Jennifer Jordan

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Ms. Jennifer Jordan is the Founder & serves as Managing Director at PickAxes & Shovels. She serves as Venture Partner at iGlobe Partners. She served as Vice President at MassVentures. She is a venture capitalist focused on early-stage and seed investment in Massachusetts high technology companies. Her most recent investments are focused on enterprise, big data, and the intersection of biology and IT. She has been a member of the Golden Seeds angel investor network, provided start-up mentoring for entrepreneurs through Springboard and the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, and served as Entrepreneurship Lead for the MIT Accelerating Information Technology Innovation program sponsored by Google in Cali, Colombia, where she leads 30 young entrepreneurs in a six-week lean start-up program to form ten new mobile technology companies. Previously, She served as Corporate Vice President of Investor Relations at Cadence Design Systems and spent 10 years as a Senior Vice President and Senior Equity Research Analyst with Black & Company through its acquisition by Wells Fargo Securities. She is a black belt in the Indonesian Martial Art of Poekoelan Tjimindie Tulen and holds the title Mas Goeroe. She earned an MBA from MIT Sloan and a Bachelor of Arts from Reed College.