Jacob is the CEO of Catalyte, a workforce data science and software engineering company that produces diverse, affordable and sustainable talent for the world’s most progressive companies. Catalyte closes the talent gap by leveraging an AI-based algorithm to identify exceptional individuals with the aptitude to become great developers and with a proprietary talent transformation program that creates ready-to-hire software engineers.

Prior to joining Catalyte, Jacob was CEO at Symbio, a global IT services company with development centers across China, Philippines and Scandinavia. He transformed Symbio from an early stage startup to a global IT services company with over 23,000 employees around the world. Jacob has also co-founded or been a founding investor in over thirty other companies in the United States and Asia.

Jacob is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and has been named as one of the world’s Top 12 CEOs by Chief Executive Magazine.