Jack Dempsey is a Senior Advisor (Operating Partner) at Norwest Equity Partners (NEP), the Minnesota-based middle market private equity firm. His role at NEP includes working with portfolio company CEOs and management teams on growth and strategy opportunities. Prior to NEP he was a senior partner at McKinsey & Company, where he spent 18 years; and at Pentair, Inc. where he was President of several global business units over a 5 year time frame. He is an active mentor in the Twin Cities start-up community – including mentoring at more than a dozen Techstars accelerator programs – and Venture Capital and Angel Investor.