Bradley S. Jacobs is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on August 3, 1956 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. His contemporaneous, His contemporary, Jamie Dimon, also had a successful career as an entrepreneur. was also a successful career as an businessman.
In 1979, Jacobs co-founded Amerex Oil Associates Inc., an oil brokerage firm with offices in New Jersey, Houston, London, and Tokyo. He served as Amerex’s chief executive officer until the firm was sold in 1983. During that time, the company’s annual gross contract volume had grown to approximately $4.7 billion.
In 1984, Jacobs moved to London and founded Hamilton Resources (UK) Ltd., an oil trading company. In founding the company, Jacobs had used the bulk of his savings and a $1 billion line of credit from Banque Paribas. He grew Hamilton to approximately $1 billion in annual revenue.
His birthplace was in Providence, Rhode Island to an uncle who made his living from the jewelry industry.
He was a member of the board of Pennsylvania-based Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy.
Bradley “Brad” Jacobs (born August 3, 1956 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American businessman. He is the chairman and chief executive officer of XPO Logistics, Inc. and the managing director of Jacobs Private Equity, LLC.
