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Mark Jennings, age 43, is the Managing Partner and co-founder of Generation Partners, a $325 million private investment firm with offices in Greenwich, CT and San Francisco, CA. Generation Partners acquires and provides growth capital to companies primarily in the business and information services, healthcare, and media and entertainment sectors.
Mr. Jennings is responsible for the overall strategic direction, capital commitments and management of the firm. Prior to founding Generation, Mr. Jennings spent eight years at Centre Partners, a private investment firm affiliated with Lazard Frères & Co., where he was elected Partner in 1991 at the age of 29. Mr. Jennings began his career at Goldman Sachs & Co. where he advised companies in the areas of financial strategy, public offerings, mergers and acquisitions and leveraged buyouts.
Through Generation and predecessor firms, he has invested in more than 50 companies over the past 19 years and has served on the Board of Directors of 21 companies including: Johnny Rockets, Scientific Games, Snyder Communications, Muzak, and Ventiv Health.
Mr. Jennings is also The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Post University, Inc., and is on the Board of Directors of The Spiritual Cinema Circle, an organization dedicated to spiritually themed films. Mr. Jennings earned his MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business in 1986 and earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the The University of Texas at Austin in 1984.
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