Dale M Jensen

Dale Jensen is an original investor of the Arizona Diamondbacks and is currently one of the four General Partners of the organization. However, the D-backs are not the only company in Jensen’s portfolio, as he is an investor in more than 30 other companies. Jensen is also a large investor into the revitalization of downtown Phoenix. He is a part owner of Alice Cooper’stown Restaurant near Chase Field and the Dodge Theater. He is also a key principal in the proposed Jackson Street Entertainment District, which would cut a path across the southern end of downtown, stretching from Central Avenue to Chase Field. Jensen began his professional career at the tender age of 23, serving as the youngest Vice President of The National Bank of Commerce. After three years, Jensen co-founded Information Technology, revolutionizing the banking industry with computer software and solutions during the infancy of the computer era, and later sold the company for $383 million in 1996. A Nebraska native, Jensen’s holdings also include Superior Shores Lodge in Two Harbors, Minn., the Sands Hill Golf Club near Mullen, Neb., and Nanonation, a leading company that creates interactive signage and kiosk solutions to the retail and hospitality industries. Jensen, who spent 1968-70 at the University of Nebraska before joining the National Guard during the Vietnam War, was a major contributor to the renovation of the university’s Andersen Hall, the journalism and mass communications building and has endowed the Dale M. Jensen chairs in math and computer science at Nebraska. He is a large donor to Nebraska’s athletic department. Jensen and his wife, Vicki, make their home in Paradise Valley. He has a son, Christopher, who has followed him into the field of technology.