Jean Joseph Jacober is a senior executive with experience turning around companies in diverse industries. He has a strong background in sales, marketing, and finance. Some of his career highlights include building brand equity for consumer companies, leading acquisitions in the luxury segment, and turning around a watch manufacturer from $15M in losses to $18M in profits within 5 years. Currently he holds board positions and provides strategic consulting for various companies.
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COO- CEO - President with 25 years experience looking for a Senior Executive position.
Jean Joseph Jacober is a senior executive with experience turning around companies in diverse industries. He has a strong background in sales, marketing, and finance. Some of his career highlights include building brand equity for consumer companies, leading acquisitions in the luxury segment, and turning around a watch manufacturer from $15M in losses to $18M in profits within 5 years. Currently he holds board positions and provides strategic consulting for various companies.
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Jean Joseph Jacober is a senior executive with experience turning around companies in diverse industries. He has a strong background in sales, marketing, and finance. Some of his career highlights include building brand equity for consumer companies, leading acquisitions in the luxury segment, and turning around a watch manufacturer from $15M in losses to $18M in profits within 5 years. Currently he holds board positions and provides strategic consulting for various companies.
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5 Chemin Truels Bernards a 1296 Coppet, Switzerland
Phone: +41 22-776-0958 a Cell: +41 79 244-14-04 a Fax: +4122-776-81-74 a Email: jj10084e0@westpost.net 2461 Santa Monica Boulevard. Suite 522, Santa Monica, CA 94404 Cell: +1-310-895- 8187 Rsum Jean Joseph Jacober, page 1 of 2, 11/24/2010 Senior executive managed successful turnarounds in diverse industries, in-depth background in sales and marketing, strong understanding of financials, proven success in building intern ational brand equity for consumer companies, excellent reputation within private equity houses and venture capital firms as a versatile operations executive creating corporate and shareholder value Career History 2008 a" 2009 Ergon Capital Partners, Brussels/Belgium Morgan Stanley, London/UK * Building up a team and work towards an acquisition of a Jewelry company based in Europe 2007 a" 2008 Berggruen Holdings, NewYork/USA * Creation of an industrial manufacturing group aproduction of components for th e watch industrya 2006 a" 2008 Capvis Equity Partner AG, Zurich/Switzerland * Mandated with a team of experts to lead towards different acquisitions within the luxury segment watches a" private labels and industrial components 2006 Timex, Middlebury/USA, London/UK * Specific International Luxury projects 2004 a" 2005 Ueta Inc., Panama City/Panama Urban Decay Hard Candy, Newport Beach/USA * Acting CEO/Consultant for a privately held Cosmetics company in California; re cently acquired from LVMH 2003 a" 2009 Roland Berger, Munich/Germany Freelance consultant 2001 a" 2003 Vollmller Textil AG, Huber Holding AG, Gtzis/Austria, Rorschach/Swi tzerland Brands: Hanro, Huber Die Wsche, Escada, Skiny, Kiddey, Joop and different Privat e Labels Chief Operating Officer Huber Holding Chairman Hanro Textile * Appointed by an Austrian private equity company and led the turnaround of one of Europeas oldest textile/clothing companies ending five years of losses within 12 months a nd restoring it to profitability 1995 a" 2000 Groupe Horloger Breguet, LaAlbaye/Switzerland President and Chief Executive Officer * Hired by Investcorp Private Equity House to turn around a luxury watch and com ponents manufacturer that had not made a profit since 1987 * Reversed $15M in losses with revenues of $55M to a profit of $18M with revenue s of $130M * Sold it to the Swatch Group, prior its anticipated exit for an amount exceedin g largely its target exit price Rsum Jean Joseph Jacober, page 2 of 2, 11/24/201 0 1987 a" 1995 Patek Philippe SA, Geneva/Switzerland Chief Operating Officer a" Director Marketing & Sales * Developed the small private company into the most desirable brand in luxury wa tch making * Grew sales from $95M to $240M and increased EBITDA and EBIT dramatically 1973 a" 1987 RJR Nabisco, Geneva/Switzerland (consolidated) Regional Manager Sales & Marketing Eastern Europe Reynolds Tobacco International (RJR Nabisco), Geneva/Switzerland Promotion and Advertising Manager Tax Free Western-Eastern Europe and Middle Eas t Procter & Gamble, Geneva/Switzerland Brand Management Walter Vogel Chaussures, Zurich//Switzerland Sales Representative Switzerland and Italy Board Seats 2010 Reuge, The Art of Mechanical Music, Sainte Croix/Switzerland Luxury company, Music Boxes, Niche positioning 2010 Networkd.Com/Mashed.com, Tempe/USA Strategic management for a web start-up 2009 Celia Capital Partners GmbH, Munich/Germany Raising minority capital for Private Equity Ventures 2005 Times Square Capital GmbH, Munich/Germany Developing strategic partnerships between capital and management for client comp anies 2005 - 2009 IB International Brand SA, Geneva/Switzerland: Company selling luxury accessories, cosmetics, fashion items, writing instrument s, watches, bags on a worldwide activity 2008 - 2009 Catwalk Worldwide PVT Ltd., Mumbai/India Indian shoe manufacturer with own distribution outlets throughout India 2006 a" 2007 Telehealth Services LLC, Dublin/Ireland Telemedicine Company Startup with 2 Partners a" sold in 2007 Qualifications SEP, Stanford Executive Program and Financial Management M.A. in Public Communications a" Fordham University Graduate School Diplma in Marketing & Publicity a" Ecole des Cadres, Lausanne Languages French, German, English - trilingual Italian - basic knowledge Nationality Swiss,.Qualify for US work visa (H1B-01)