Brad Jacobs

Brad Jacobs is chairman and chief executive officer of QXO, Inc. (Nasdaq: QXO), which he recently founded to consolidate the $800 billion building products distribution industry. He is a career CEO and serial entrepreneur with a unique track record of creating outsized value for shareholders — he has started five companies from scratch and turned them all into billion-dollar or multibillion-dollar enterprises, with two of the 10 best-performing Fortune 500 stocks of the last decade: XPO, Inc. (#7) and United Rentals, Inc. (#6).

Jacobs currently serves as executive chairman of XPO, Inc. (NYSE: XPO), which he founded in 2011 and led to become one of the world’s largest providers of freight transportation services. He is non-executive chairman of XPO spin-offs GXO Logistics, Inc. (NYSE: GXO), the world’s largest pure-play contract logistics company, and RXO, Inc. (NYSE: RXO), a leading, tech-forward transportation brokerage platform in North America.

Prior to XPO, Jacobs founded United Rentals, Inc. (NYSE: URI) and United Waste Systems, Inc. United Rentals became the largest equipment rental provider in the world 13 months after Jacobs founded it in 1997. The company’s stock is a “200-bagger”— investors in URI at its inception made more than 200 times their money by 2024. United Waste Systems became the fifth largest solid waste management company in the United States and had outperformed the S&P 500 by 5.6 times when Jacobs sold the business in 1997.

Over the course of his career, Jacobs has completed approximately 500 acquisitions, raised over $40 billion in institutional capital, and created iconic organizations that have transformed industry practices through technology.