I’m a career CEO with a unique track record as a Wall Street moneymaker. I’ve founded eight billion-dollar or multibillion-dollar companies, creating tens of billions of dollars of value for shareholders across multiple industries. This includes six publicly traded corporations: United Waste Systems, Inc.; United Rentals, Inc.; XPO, Inc.; GXO Logistics, Inc.; RXO, Inc.; and my new company, QXO, Inc. QXO will consolidate the building products distribution industry, which is large, growing, and rich with acquisition opportunities. Building products distribution has approximately $800 billion in annual revenue between North America and Europe. Our strategy is to create a tech-forward industry leader through accretive M&A and organic growth. My goal with QXO, as with all my ventures, is to generate outsized value for shareholders. My edge is that I hire exceptionally talented people who think big and are committed to achieving remarkable results. My teams and I have completed about 500 M&A transactions across multiple industries, and we’ve raised approximately $40 billion of debt and equity capital, including three IPOs. In the supply chain industry, we grew XPO into a top ten global logistics provider, and then completed a $7 billion spin-off of GXO Logistics and a $5 billion spin-off of RXO, creating two new public companies in about 15 months. XPO was the seventh best-performing stock of the last decade in the Fortune 500 and became a "32-bagger" — initial investors in XPO made more than 32 times their money.Prior to XPO, I founded United Rentals and United Waste Systems. We built United Rentals into the largest construction equipment rental company in the world in 13 months. United Rentals was the sixth best-performing Fortune 500 stock of the last decade and became a “200-bagger” — the share price at inception was $3.50 and its stock now trades at over 200 times that price. United Waste’s stock outperformed the S&P 500 by 5.6 times from the time I took the company public to the time we sold it for $2.5 billion.My book, How to Make a Few Billion Dollars, outlines the playbook we’ve used for more than four decades to create outsized shareholder value.
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Chairman And CeoQxo Jun 2024 - PresentQXO provides technology solutions, primarily to clients in the manufacturing, distribution and service sectors. The company provides consulting and professional services, specialized programming, training and technical support. As a value-added reseller of business application software, QXO offers solutions for accounting, financial reporting, enterprise resource planning, warehouse management systems, customer relationship management, business intelligence and other applications. Additionally, QXO develops and publishes its own proprietary software. QXO plans to become a tech-forward leader in the $800 billion building products distribution industry, with the goal of generating outsized shareholder value. The company is targeting tens of billions of dollars of annual revenue in the next decade through accretive acquisitions and organic growth. -
Executive ChairmanXpo Nov 2022 - PresentGreenwich, Ct, Us -
Chairman And CeoXpo Sep 2011 - Nov 2022Greenwich, Ct, UsXPO (NYSE: XPO) is one of the largest providers of asset-based less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation in North America, with proprietary technology that moves goods efficiently through its network. Together with its business in Europe, XPO serves approximately 52,000 customers with 596 locations and 38,000 employees. The company is headquartered in Greenwich, CT, USA. -
Non-Executive ChairmanRxo Nov 2022 - PresentCharlotte, Nc, UsRXO (NYSE: RXO) is a leading provider of asset-light transportation solutions. RXO offers tech-enabled truck brokerage services together with complementary solutions including managed transportation, freight forwarding and last mile delivery. The company combines massive capacity and cutting-edge technology to move freight efficiently through supply chains. RXO’s proprietary technology connects approximately 10,000 customers with over 100,000 independent carriers across North America. The company has approximately 7,000 employees and is headquartered in Charlotte, NC. -
Non-Executive ChairmanGxo Logistics, Inc. Aug 2021 - PresentGreenwich, Connecticut, UsGXO Logistics, Inc. (NYSE: GXO) is the world’s largest pure-play contract logistics provider, and holds 2% of the fast-growing $430 billion potential addressable logistics market in Europe and North America. GXO is committed to providing a world-class, diverse workplace for its 130,000 team members across more than 970 facilities totaling approximately 200 million square feet. The company partners with leading blue-chip companies to solve complex logistics challenges with technologically advanced supply chain solutions, at scale and with speed. -
Managing PartnerJacobs Private Equity Llc 2010 - PresentJacobs Private Equity LLC is the personal investment vehicle of Brad Jacobs. The firm was formed to make substantial equity investments in companies that have the potential for exceptional value creation. -
Chairman And CeoUnited Rentals, Inc. 1997 - 2007Stamford, Ct, UsUnited Rentals (NYSE: URI) is the world’s largest equipment rentals company, with more than 1,300 stores in the United States and Canada serving construction and industrial companies, utilities, municipalities and homeowners. -
Chairman And CeoUnited Waste Systems, Inc. 1989 - 1997United Waste Systems was the fifth-largest solid waste management company in North America, prior to its sale to Waste Management, Inc. in 1997.
Brad Jacobs Education Details
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Brown University -
Bennington College -
Northfield Mount Hermon
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