Jacob is President and Chairman of the Investment Committee at Transcend Capital Advisors. Prior to joining Transcend, Jacob most recently served in executive leadership and portfolio management roles at Citadel, where he led a team managing a multibillion-dollar portfolio of stocks in the technology, communications, media, internet, payments, and services industries. Prior to joining Citadel, he was a Partner and sector head at Glenview Capital, a leading diversified hedge fund. Previously, Jacob held equities research roles at Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers (now Barclays) and worked as a mergers and acquisitions investment banker at Lehman Brothers.
Jacob holds a Bachelor of Science degree, with high honors, from Rutgers University and an MBA, with honors, from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
