Denise Beeson is an experienced small business relationship manager with senior level expertise in business development worldwide, including marketing, licensing, and assisting companies acquire funding. She has assisted companies in a wide range of industries prepare their business plans, marketing strategies, and presentations to the investor community.

Ms. Beeson has a degree from Whittier College, a Masters from San Francisco State, and a Licensing Certificate in Intellectual Property Licensing from the Licensing Executive Society in conjunction with Harvard Business School.

Ms. Beeson has been an adjunct instructor in the Small Business Management and Marketing Departments at SRJC for over 20 years. Classes routinely offered include: Procedures to Start a Business, How to Write a Business Plan, Small Business Promotion, Advertising and Sales, Retail Marketing, New Product Development, and International Marketing. She also has been an invited guest lecturer at Sonoma State University in the International Marketing and Wine Business Programs. She is also a contributing author to "Masters in Sales", authored by Ivan Misner & Dan Morgan. Read her chapter on "Handling Objections".

Ms. Beeson is a frequently invited guest lecturer and has spoken to audiences worldwide. Some of the topics include: Technology Commercialization, Marketing, Promotion, Commercial Lending and Networking. She has spoken on Technology Commercialization at the WESCON SEMI Conductor Associations, Society for Vacuum Coaters, and the Knowledge Forum; and, on Marketing at the City of Windsor, North Bay Entrepreneur’s Association, North Coast Builder’s Exchange, and the Women’s Council of Realtors.

She is involved in her community. She has started her blog about the Wine Country about Sonomsa County and the events she attends. Ms. Beeson is a member in good standing in the following organizations: North Coast Builder’s Exchange, Sonoma County Bar Association (SCBA), Redwood Empire Mortgage Lenders Association (REMLA), Business Network International (BNI) and the Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce-Ambassador Economic Vitality Committee, and Women’s Council of Realtors (WCR).