Brad Jacobs '77
Jacobs is chairman and CEO of , the largest publicly traded distributor of roofing, waterproofing, and complementary building products in the United States. He serves as executive chairman of the board of (NYSE: XPO), which he founded in 2011. He is the author of .
Jacobs is a career CEO and serial entrepreneur with a unique track record of creating outsized value for shareholders — he has started eight companies from scratch and turned them all into billion-dollar or multibillion-dollar enterprises, with two of the 10 best-performing Fortune 500 stocks of the last decade: XPO, Inc. (#7) and United Rentals, Inc. (#6).
Over the course of his career, Jacobs has completed approximately 500 acquisitions, raised around $50 billion in institutional capital, and created iconic organizations that have transformed industry practices through technology.