As a leader with extensive experience in sales, marketing, strategic planning, finance, business development, project management, and IT, Jennifer Tharp has been successful in growing businesses and teams from scratch in both start-ups and established multinational corporations. She has a proven record in driving business growth through process, organization, and technology transformation.

Tharp's end-to-end experience in corporate operations, which includes M&A integration, turn-around, IPO, and start-up leadership experience, has enabled her to produce exceptional results at companies including Mastodon Consulting and State of California. She has also served as a Director in Information Technology Project Management Office at County of Santa Clara and a Compliance Manager at Cisco.

Tharp is an expert in governance practices and board leadership, having chaired Audit and Compensation Committees, and taking companies through all phases of pre-IPO and M&A readiness. She has also developed governance practices that make a client a viable target for an acquirer and rationalized practices post-integration.

Tharp's educational background includes studying at The Institute of Directors, studying Finance at The Institute of Directors, the University of Dayton, and Stanford University. She also studied Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at Indiana Wesleyan University.