admin Alternative investments are investment options beyond traditional ones like stocks, bonds, and cash. Alternative investments may include a wide range of assets such as real estate, commodities, private equity, hedge funds, art, collectibles, or cryptocurrencies.
Sasha Jensen is the founder and CEO of Jensen Partners and Jensen DiversityMetrics™. Leading a team of senior recruitment specialists and dedicated data scientists, she exclusively focuses on sourcing, recruiting, and placing capital-raising and investment professionals for top alternative investment firms.
The Story Behind Jensen Partners
Jensen Partners and Jensen DiversityMetrics™ was established in the year 2012. Before starting her own firm, Sasha was an investigative Journalist. During her tenure as the Head of Investigations, she discovered her talent for storytelling through data, contextualizing the scale of issues, and measuring progress.
Sasha believed that data substantiates an immediate call to action, Sasha shifted to recruiting and started her journey as the only female recruiter in the industry which was previously dominated by male recruiters.
Sasha scanned the financial services landscape and discovered an opportunity to focus on the recruitment of marketing and distribution professionals in the alternative asset management industry, at the time still in its infancy.
At present, the firm takes a data-driven approach to all mandates, leverages both quantitative and qualitative insights for its unique competitor intelligence market mapping model. This model is used to map out the entire distribution platforms for more than 600 alternative asset management firms spanning the private equity, private credit, real estate and infrastructure sectors, hedge fund and private fund placement groups. By utilizing a customized, scientific approach, proprietary 360° Investor Referencing™ methodology and advanced behavioral analytics, we aid clients in raising capital by identifying and securing the ideal human capital.
About the Charismatic Founder
Sasha began her career as an investigative journalist. Journalism makes one find data from scratch which is then turned into an informative story that reaches across various platforms.
And as a former investigative Journalist, she firmly trusts that data substantiates an immediate call to action.
Sasha founded Jensen Partners on the principle that diversity is a critical and immediate need in the alternative investment space. That is when Sasha instigated Jensen DiversityMetrics™, the first enterprise software platform to empower firms to analyze hiring and retention practices.
The Immense Barriers
In 2008, at the beginning of the Great Recession, total alternative assets under management were $3.1 trillion. By 2020, assets had more than tripled to $11.5 trillion as investment firms raised ever-more funds and brought in an ever-larger share of institutional capital. Much of the credit for this growth belongs to marketing professionals, and Sasha’s focus on those marketers had positioned her at the forefront of an enormous and thriving market. Once Sasha carved out her niche, she found innovative ways to leverage her passion for data and background as an investigative journalist.
Sasha’s Felicitous Accomplishments
Being a young and female entrepreneur in emerging field of recruitment when she started out, Sasha had many problems to face and knew that she had to step ahead in the market. Her talents and knowledge about data helped her stand still in the rush hour of the market.
Due to her persistence and determination, both she and the company have won numerous awards.
- 2016 Best Executive Search Firm
- 2017 Best Executive Search Firm
- 2017 Best Recruitment Firm
- 2017 Best Executive Search Firm
- 2018 Best Recruitment Firm
- 2018 Best Recruitment Firm
- 2019 Best Executive Search Firm
- 2019 Best Recruitment Company for Investor Relations & Asset Raising
- 2019 Best Recruitment Firm
- 2020 Best Recruitment Firm
- 2021 Best Investor Relations & Asset Raising Recruitment Firm
- 2020 Best Recruitment Firm
- 2020 Best Recruitment Company for Investor Relations & Asset Raising
- 2020 Best Recruitment Company for Executives
- 2021 Best Recruitment Consultant
- 2021 Best Recruiter
- 2021 Best Recruitment Company for Investor Relations & Asset Raising
- 2022 Best Recruiter
- 2022 Best Recruitment Company for Investor Relations & Asset Raising
- 2022 Best Recruitment Company for Investor Relations & Asset Raising
- 2023 Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Award
- 2023 World’s Most Innovative Companies
Today, Jensen Partners operates on the principle that diversity is a critical and immediate need within the alternative investment landscape. Though there is still a long way to go, the path forward is clear. Sasha and the Jensen Partners team aim to help every alternative investment firm through each step of their hiring and DEI journey, and is confident we’re witnessing a movement – not a moment – toward a more diverse and inclusive industry for all.
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