Jay Jacobs
Chief Executive Officer at Align Infrastructure
Jay Jacobs
Chief Executive Officer at Align Infrastructure
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Executive Officer
2020 - Current
Align is an investment bank focused on Infrastructure. Align works with top-tier companies, VCs/PE, investors, and customers to finance, upgrade and manage infrastructure projects in the US and Europe. We help municipalities, hospitals, schools, universities, corrections...and large public companies efficiently replace and manage infrastructure assets such as chillers, boilers, elevators, escalators... Align is the leader in value innovation for infrastructure. Customers also appreciate our diverse and proven professional team and our culture to solve, not exploit, their problems. LP investors seek exposure to Align's originated projects because they're directly investing in mission-critical low-risk assets, shovel-ready projects, and scalable investment opportunities generating absolute, non-correlated returns over 15 to 25 years. Green debt investors are attracted to Align because projects are impactful and sustainable.
Founding Partner, Chief Investment Officer & Managing Director
2015 - 2019
CIO of a leading infrastructure company and investment group. Responsibilities included selling the company to BlackRock and, later, raising operating and LP capital after SP exited BlackRock. Fundamentally, our success was due to building relationships with a long-term orientation and focusing on a win/win/win objective for the firm, customer, and investor.
PRESIDENT, PORTFOLIO MANAGER, ALTERNATIVE MUTUAL FUND & SERVICES
2011 - 2015
Partnered with hedge funds to stabilize and grow business by leveraging excess capacity in hedged strategies while capturing diverse and sticky investors.
CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT, and PORTFOLIO MANAGER
2007 - 2010
Worked with the advisor, board, portfolio managers and shareholders to transition from an underperforming mutual fund family with poor performance, high expenses, and litigious issues to an alternative mutual fund with a new investment team and board while reducing shareholder expenses.
FOUNDING PARTNER, PRESIDENT, AND PORTFOLIO MANAGER
2003 - 2007
Captured returns of 20% annually as senior portfolio manager for a fundamental long/short equity hedge fund and directed all aspects of distribution management services for a premier endowment, meeting return goals.
FOUNDING PARTNER, CEO ASSET MANAGEMENT, PORTFOLIO MANAGER, EXECUTIVE TEAM, HEAD OF SALES
1998 - 2003
• Grew Thomas Weisel Partners from a zero-base to $500 million in revenues, becoming the fastest growing financial services company in history. • Built a high-performing infrastructure, hiring 100+ top-tier professionals over two years. • Championed the successful turnaround of the firm’s proprietary hedge fund by cutting resources and expenses, assessing all investment decisions, and implementing changes; achieved a hedge fund ranking based on performance with top 2% of all short- and long-term hedge funds.
Founding Partner, Executive Team, Head of Sales and Syndicate, VC Co-Portfolio Manager
1986 - 1998
Founding Partner, Executive Team, Head of Sales & Syndicate, Co-PM for VC Sold company to Dain Rauscher ($150m) Help Restructure DRW prior to RBC's Acquisition ($1.2b)