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Dave Jensen Dave Jensen is the founder and Managing Director of CareerTrax Inc. (CTI), an executive search and recruiting firm (Sedona, AZ). Prior to the launch of CareerTrax, Jensen was the CEO of Search Masters International, a top biotechnology executive search practice founded in 1985, which he later sold to Kelly Scientific Resources, a division of $4 Billion Kelly Services (Troy, MI). Prior to 1985, Jensen established a life sciences practice for Govig and Associates (Phoenix, AZ) under the Management Recruiters International brand.

After working as an executive recruiter for more than 20 years, his clients regard him as an effective resource, often providing results on search projects where others have failed or where extended advertising campaigns have not brought in candidates. In addition to his day job, Dave’s monthly column "Managing Your Career" and his speaking engagements have made his company quite visible in the bio/pharma industries.

Jensen has published over 300 articles on management and personal development topics for journals such as BioPharm and Contract Pharma, along with regular features in Genetic Engineering News and magazines published by the American Chemical Society, the American Society for Microbiology, and Society for Industrial Microbiology. Mr. Jensen has delivered seminars and workshops in industry meetings internationally, including keynote presentations at career events held by the National Cancer Institute, Johns Hopkins University, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Vanderbilt, University of Rochester, University of California San Francisco and the statewide "California State University Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology" (CSUPERB). He has been a guest speaker at biotechnology trade events held in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Madrid, Barcelona, Hamburg and Prague.

On more than fifty occasions, Dave has been interviewed regarding the growth of jobs in the biotechnology sector, including articles that have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the San Jose Mercury News, Orange County Register, Family Money Magazine, Chemistry, Science, Bottom Line, Employment Review, The Scientist, Nature, San Antonio Business Journal and others.

Mr. Jensen is on the faculty of the Teaching Survival Skills and Ethics Program from the University of Pittsburgh, and serves on the Advisory Board of the AAAS Next Wave, the organization behind many of the career services available at the Science Careers website. In addition, Jensen serves on the Board of Directors for a biotechnology venture, ProActive BioProducts. This firm is the USA distribution arm for products based upon ancient Scandinavian remedies that have gone through modern-day clinical trials at Swedish Herbal Institute (Gothenburg, Sweden).