J2 Partners Team

Gary Jacobs, a co-founder of J2 Partners, previously served as Special Partner at Kachi Partners, a lower middle market private equity firm, where he continues to work to support private equity firm, where he continues to work to support portfolio companies at board level. Previously Gary, a founding investor in Corporate Express, served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, responsible for developing and executing key elements of the firm’s strategy including the successful completion of numerous public and private financing transactions, including its successful IPO and secondary offerings, many public and private mergers and acquisitions, a leveraged recapitalization, and negotiation of its 1999 merger for $2.3 Billion with Buhrmann N.V. Gary has extensive experience with transaction negotiation, acquisitions, investments, financing and business execution in a broad range of industries. While Gary typically focused on successful transaction selection and execution, he also devoted significant energy to managing internal growth and operational transformation. Gary’s career includes work in the publishing industry (at Random House and Grove Press;) as an institutional sales business planning and financing professional with Storage Technology Corporation (now a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems;) and as founder, CFO, and Executive Vice President of Capital Associates, Inc., an equipment and project finance firm where he was responsible for more than $1.0 billion of financing, including the execution of a successful IPO. Gary and his wife have two adult children and he serves on the Executive Committee of the Advisory Board of the University of Colorado College of Engineering (from which he is a graduate) and on several non-profit and corporate boards. Gary is a true Coloradan enjoying skiing, hiking, good food, and world travel.