Bill Jacobson Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Metal Fuels is a green energy company commercializing the use of recycled aluminum to make zero-emissions hydrogen and heat energy that is inexpensive and easy-to-transport. Metal Fuels energy creation process produces no harmful emissions. Instead it creates alumina, a valuable global commodity used in lithium ion batteries, LED lights and the principal feedstock to produce aluminum. Markets include building combined heat and power, green hydrogen production, marine transportation and off-grid charging.

Telltale Solutions assist existing companies and incubating new ones. Our focus is on improving peoples lives through sustainable technology advancements.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Leading CIC Health’s initiative to provide a streamlined, cost effective pooled testing products/services to bring back in-person learning, give families peace of mind and help businesses operate. Effort includes a 3 week launch of pooled testing services to 450+ Massachusetts public schools representing 140,000 students and faculty.

Spent 14 months living aboard a 56’ sailboat with wife and two teenage kids. Trip included trans-Atlantic crossing, trans-Pacific crossing, boat schooling, ongoing boat maintenance, travel/pandemic related challenges, various weather events, big city ports, beautiful secluded anchorage. In short, it was a family adventure of a lifetime, chronicled at sailverbena.com

Boston, Ma , Us

Workbar is network of prominent coworking spaces linking startups, entrepreneurs and large companies through use of Workbar’s friendly, flexible and convenient locations. Thousands of professionals use our locations and digital platform every day to be productive and inspired by others.• Created a welcoming culture, attracting a vibrant membership across all types of companies• Helped organize coworking industry as founding member of LeXC and a GWA Board Member

Boston, Ma , Us

• Designed space format and technology platform specifically to foster collaboration• Grew to 8 locations in the Boston area and over 2,000 members• Successfully launched locations that were profitable within 6 months of opening• Licensed tech platform to 10+ partners, creating first multi-brand regional coworking network• Innovated traditional retail, launching three locations inside Staples retail stores• Negotiated leases and developed management contracts to secure top locations• Raise growth capital from Japanese public company Apamanshop

A package pickup service enabling consumers to send online deliveries to a local retailer for pickup at their convenience. • Designed and implemented initial product software platform• Developed retail partners including Walgreens, True Value Hardware and others• Launched in Boston and scaled to a multi-city roll out • Sold company to ShopRunner in 2012

Started out of Harvard University’s Idea Translation Lab, MuseTrek was an online community to share cultural experiences inside museums and around cities.• Managed an inter-disciplinary team from Paris and Boston• Developed platform linking user generated content to mobile sitemaps • Deployed at The Louvre, Boston MFA, Bloomfield Science Museum and many others

Business incubator and development group focused on information technologies and Internet-based software and services. • Worked with various startup teams on product development, sales, marketing• Took an operational role in two startups, MuseTrek and PickupZone

Startup automating storage and network virtualization to implement on demand, highly available infrastructure using commercial, off the shelf hardware.• Responsible for business product market fit• Set business requirements in financial sectors and attracted beta deployments

Spent 18 months living aboard 46' sailboat cruising the Caribbean, Atlantic and Mediterranean Seas with my wife. Trip included trans-Atlantic crossing, racing in regattas, numerous storms and many peaceful anchorages. In a pre-Facebook or pre-Blogger era, to remember the experience, I created www.vanish.net and devised a way to post uploads via email.

Responsible for retention product line and its integration with other email acquisition offerings.• Merged aspects InterStep’s and YesMail’s back end platform• Trained sales force, responded to RFP’s, and designed client integration procedures• Managed Andover, MA based development and services groups for Chicago based company• Evaluated competitive companies as acquisition targets

Launched email newsletter network, repositioned team to meet demands of Engage’s emerging B2B advertising network, and developed privacy strategy for email operations. Kept original group and clients in-tact through multiple acquisitions.• Kept original InterStep group and clients in-tact through multiple acquisitions• Launched email newsletter portion of Engage’s emerging B2B advertising network• Served over 20m emails per month within three months of launch• Developed and deployed privacy strategy regarding personally identifiable information• Negotiated the sale of the original InterStep team, assets, and clients to YesMail

Software and services company responsible for delivering personalized email newsletter for major publishers such as ZDNet, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and other daily newspapers.• Developed email retention offerings to meet the demands of the online publishing industry• Directed partnerships and sales, including long term multi-year contracts• Managed company finances, maintaining a positive cash flow and profitability• Hired staff, set employee policies, built company infrastructure, and managed vendors• Led negotiation of InterStep’s acquisition by Flycast

Lexington, Ma, Us

Worked for Signature Studies and Analysis Group to implement next generation software algorithms.• Created real-time missile tracking software for theater missile defense scenarios• Used meteorological data from around the world for space radar calibration