Congratulations to Dao and thank you to Fernando Hernandez, VP Global Diversity at Microsoft, for nominating her!
Dao Jensen Bio and Background
Dao has been in the tech industry for over 20 years and founded Kaizen Technology Partners LLC in 2013 as the first 100% female minority owned Born in the Cloud Focused SI/VAR in the
San Francisco Bay Area. Kaizen helps Fortune 500 Enterprise clients optimize, strategize, and procure cloud technologies. Some of Kaizen’s marquee clients are: SAP.com, AT&T, Tesla,
NASDAQ, PayPal and Bed Bath and Beyond. Kaizen also works with many medium businesses and startups such as Zuora, Kountable, and Gainsight.
Kaizen launched “The Office of the Cloud” in 2016 with Storm Ventures to help clients share successes and failures in their cloud projects as well as help more women create careers in the
cloud economy. In Kaizen’s five years of operation, it has several awards from the IT community, including being the #1 Cloud reseller in the Nation in 2014 for Avnet technology in
the first year of business. She has personally grown and bootstrapped the company to $13+ million in sales by using partners and distribution.
Dao joins a cadre of other 2020 IWEC Awardees who are being recognized this year at our virtual annual conference which is to be held Nov. 9th & 10th from 11am to 2:30PM EST. The conference is open to the general public for the first time as, under normal non-COVID conditions, the conference is by invitation only. We hope you can join us to hear our presenters whose topics focus on “Connecting Women Business Owners Globally: Sustainability in the Next Decade.”
Take a peek at the other 384 awardees we have recognized over the years. They are quite impressive and are from 42 countries and have a combined revenue of over $35 billion.