SOX Center

At September 22th 2006, the California CPA Education Foundation will be holding the “High Tech Industries Conference for Financial Professionals” in Santa Clara.

One of the Highlights speaker will be Mark E. Jensen, CPA whis speech “Impact of Sarbanes Oxley on Smaller Public Companies”.

About Mark E. Jensen:

Mark Jensen is Partner & National Director, Venture Capital Services, at Deloitte & Touche LLP. Prior to joining Deloitte & Touche, Jensen was the CFO for Redleaf Group Inc., a venture capital firm providing services and capital for pre-seed and seed-stage technology companies. He joined Redleaf after serving as the Silicon Valley office managing partner and global high-technology industry leader for another Big 5 professional services firm.

Mark is a frequent speaker on issues impacting early-stage venture capital-backed companies and has most recently presented to the venture capital community on the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on early-stage pre-public companies. Current speaking engagements have included the annual meeting of the International Limited Partners Association (portfolio valuation issues), The Dartmouth Foster Center for Private Equity (valuation issues and Model Form Limited Partnership Agreements), and the 2004 SEC Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation (Sarbanes-Oxley impact on the venture capital industry). He has recently been appointed to the SEC Advisory Committee on Smaller Public Companies, which has a charter to review the impact of regulation on smaller public companies and companies going public.