Don Hejna is the Managing Partner of Stantum, LLC, a registered financial advisory firm.  He specializes in the quantitative analysis of business data, credit, loans, securities, and portfolio optimization.  Prior to this role, Mr. Hejna was CEO of Enounce, Incorporated, a software technology company in Palo Alto from 1989 through 2015.  He has been a Managing Partner of Virentem Ventures, LLC, a Silicon Valley firm focused on Intellectual Property acquisitions, strategy, market analysis, and turn-around opportunities for high tech companies since 2010 and has also been employed on occasion by the Stanford Graduate School of Business as a Group Facilitator for the Interpersonal Dynamics Course and Teaching Assistant for the High Performance Leadership Course since 2014.

Mr. Hejna holds the following licenses and charters:   Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA), Chartered Financial Data Professional (FDP) and a Series 65 Investment Advisor Representative License. Mr. Hejna earned a Graduate Certificate in Quantitative Methods in Finance and Risk Management from Stanford University’s Financial Mathematics / Statistics Department; a Master of Science degree in Management from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business in 2007 as a Sloan Fellow; a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) in 1990; and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. in 1990.

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