Eliot Jacobsen

Current

• Co-Founder at Lumiport
• Managing General Partner at Jacobsen Holdings

Past

• Head of Corporate and Product Strategy at PayPal
• Head of Corporate and Product Strategy, PayPal at eBay
• Strategy and Marketing at Edustructures LLC

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Education

• Harvard University
• Harvard Business School
• Brigham Young University

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Connections

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Industry

Venture Capital & Private Equity

Eliot Jacobsen’s Summary

A leading corporate strategist, CEO and currently recognized as one of the top 100 entrepreneurs in Utah, Eliot has 20 years experience driving corporate strategy and leading venture-funded technology companies.

- Lumiport, a light therapy company who's first product, the DermaStyle, reduces the redness and size of blemishes associated with acne, has been featured on CNN and NBC news as a promising new treatment.

-Head of Corporate Strategy at PayPal (eBay), Eliot was a member of the executive staff and led a team that touched all aspects of this billion dollar online payments leader with growth strategy, strategic partnerships, mergers & acquisitions, new products, best practices, competitive intelligence, and positioning.

- COO, Omniture (OMTR): Inc. 500 member and leader in strategic web analytics for the enterprise. Omniture customers include eBay, Microsoft, AOL, Walmart, Hewlett-Packard, General Motors, CBS Sportsline, ESPN, and Warner Music.

- CEO, Freeport: Loyalty management web services. Built this new venture from 2 to 150 employees and from $0 to $10mm in revenue run-rate.

- Viewpoint Digital (VWPT) : Eliot raised several rounds of financing from Kleiner Perkins, Intel, Motorola and Sumitomo and ultimately helped sell the company to Computer Associates.

Mr. Jacobsen was a strategy consultant at Bain & Company, where he specialized in technology and competitive strategy, M&A, re-engineering and process improvement for FORTUNE 500 companies in the technology, banking, manufacturing, defense, retail and entertainment industries. Clients included Dell Computer, Lockheed/Martin Aerospace, Maryland National Bank, Dun & Bradstreet, and GTE. Eliot was also an analyst at Bain Capital where he helped analyze and complete large leveraged private equity transactions.

Eliot has a B.S. degree with Honors in Business Management, from Brigham Young University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Eliot Jacobsen’s Specialties:

Corporate strategy and development, M&A, venture capital, start-ups, business planning, negotiation, marketing, business development, finance, operations, general management, recruiting, re-engineering