Dr. W. Andreas Jacobs (born October 1963) is a
Bremen
Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...
-born
entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values th ...
who lives in Germany and is a German national.
Biography
Andreas Jacobs (1963) studied law at the Universities of Freiburg im Breisgau, Munich and Montpellier and subsequently obtained a postgraduate degree in European competition law (Dr. iur.) from the University of Freiburg im Breisgau. Afterwards he obtained an MBA from
INSEAD
INSEAD, a contraction of "Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires" () is a non-profit business school that maintains campuses in Europe ( Fontainebleau, France), Asia (Singapore), the Middle East (Abu Dhabi, UAE), and North America (San ...
in Fontainebleau, France.
From 1991, Andreas Jacobs worked three years as a consultant and project manager at
The Boston Consulting Group
Boston Consulting Group, Inc. (BCG) is an American global management consulting firm founded in 1963 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. It is one of the Big Three (or MBB, the world’s three largest management consulting firms by rev ...
in Munich.
Since 1992, Andreas Jacobs has been an independent entrepreneur with a stake in several companies plus minority interests in several other companies.
Since 2000, Andreas Jacobs has been responsible for the family business in Switzerland. As from 2003, Andreas Jacobs served on the board of
Barry Callebaut
Barry Callebaut is a Belgian-Swiss cocoa processor and chocolate manufacturer, with an average annual production of 2.3 million tonnes of cocoa & chocolate (fiscal year 2021/2022).
It was created in 1996 through the merging of the Belgian ...
AG, where he was chairman from 2005 to 2016. He was executive chairman of
Jacobs Holding Jacobs Holding AG is an investment firm based in Zürich founded in 1994 by Klaus Johann Jacobs which developed from Jacobs Suchard AG.
Following the sale of 10.1% of Adecco in 2014, the focus is on the 50.1% stake in Barry Callebaut AG. In additi ...
AG from 2004 to 2015 and a member of the board until 2019. In April 2015, he stepped down from his functions at
Adecco SA, where he had served as member of the board since May 2006, chairman of the Nomination & Compensation Committee since May 2008 and as vice-chairman of the board since January 2012. Furthermore, he served as chairman of Infront Sports & Media AG (until 2011), and as chairman of Brach’s Inc. (from 2000 until 2004).
Andreas Jacobs serves as chairman of INSEAD – The Business School for the World®, Minibar AG and Röwer & Rüb GmbH. Furthermore, he is CEO of Niantic Holding GmbH, a member of the advisory board of Dr. August Oetker KG, member of the board of Louis Dreyfus Company Holdings, member of the board of Hoist Group Holding Intressenter AB, and member of the board of directors of various small private companies. In 2015, he was co-founder and investor of GENUI Partners, an investment company based in Germany, where he advises several investments.
In 2020, Andreas joined the board of directors o
Hoist Group- provider of the widest range of hospitality technology.
Jacobs in Academia:
EDUCATION THE SWEETEST GIFT, SAYS GLOBAL CHOCOLATE ENTREPRENEUR AND PHILANTHROPIST ANDREAS JACOBS MBA’90D
Jacobs in books:
Swiss Made
The Untold Story Behind Switzerland's Success
By R. James Breiding · 2013
Jacobs in the news:
Views on investing in hospitality technologyGermany’s reclusive rich edge into the limelightGalileo sister to Japan becomes world's most expensive yearling at 3,400,000gnsVon Boetticher and Ballylinch love affair continues with Waldgeist
Personal
Jacobs is married and has four children.
External links
* Jacobs Holding A
* Barry Callebaut A
* Adecco S
* Jacobs Foundatio
* INSEA
* All4Label
References
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1963 births
INSEAD alumni
Boston Consulting Group people
Chocolatiers
Living people
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni
University of Freiburg alumni