Donors to Common Recipients
Recipients of donations from Gary E Jacobs also received donations from these orgs and people
Jacobs Investment Company; Son of Qualcomm co-founder, Jewish philanthropist, father of Sara Jacobs CA-Rep
Jacobs is the Managing Director of Jacobs Investment Company LLC (JIC). JIC was created in 1997. Jacobs serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of High Tech High charter schools, Graduate School of Education and national high school reform movement. HTH is founded on three design principles: personalization, adult-world connection, and a common intellectual mission. He also serves as Chair of the Dean’s Advisory Council for the Social Sciences at University of California at San Diego UCSD. He and his wife, Jerri-Ann, created the Gary and Jerri-Ann Graduate Fellowship in Social Sciences Endowment and the Jerri-Ann and Gary Jacobs Chair in Social Sciences. Jacobs graduated in 1979 from the University of California at San Diego with a B.A. in Management Science. He worked as a Software Programmer and Engineer at Linkabit Inc. and QUALCOMM from 1979 through 1996, then as a Senior Education Specialist until 2000 working with K-12 educational institutions to enhance science and math studies. Mr. Jacobs lives in Del Mar with his wife Jerri-Ann, and their dogs, Sunny and Winston. They have four adult children, Adam, Sara, Beth and Dylan.
