Primary Job Title Managing Partner Primary Organization Connor Group
Location Palo Alto, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
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Jim Neesen is a Managing Partner and CFO at Connor Group in Palo Alto, CA, an elite Accounting and IPO services firm. Connor Group has worked on 44% of the IPOs in Silicon Valley in the past 4 years and has a client portfolio of 250+ premier technology companies around the globe. Jim joined Connor Group after graduating from the Stanford GSB as a
Sloan fellow in 2009 and has led revenue growth from $4M to over $30M today.
Jim’s career highlights have included 2 biotech IPO's including Affymetrix and Fluidigm, 12 years in biotech and over 20 cumulative years in industry / public accounting.
Jim has participated in over $250M in equity and debt financings in biotech. He also is an entrepreneur who founded 2 companies in green technology and consumer products.
A CPA with audit and consulting roots from Ernst & Young’s technology practice and is a guest lecturer at Stanford GSB on topics including revenue recognition and IPO readiness.
Jim has a Masters degree from Stanford GSB and his undergraduate is from U.C. Berkeley in Economics/Business.
