Jacob founded Visium in 2005, leading a team of 20 investment professionals he put together over the previous four years at Balyasny Asset Management ("BAM"). Before joining BAM in 2001, Jacob was a Portfolio Manager at Merlin. Prior to that, he was a buy-side analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein. Jacob graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with a BA in Economics and earned an MD from New York University Medical School. He obtained his CFA charter from AIMR in 2001.