Jay Jakub is the Chief of Staff of the Economics of Mutuality (EoM) organization headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, though he is based outside Washington, D.C.. He is also the Director of the EoM Foundation and is a founding member of the board of the Jubilee Economics Foundation, both in Switzerland. Jay advises the Thompson Family Office in Richmond, Virginia, and is an advisor to Singapore’s Alliance for Action on Corporate Purpose. He is an international speaker, author, former senior civil servant, and former Senior Director for External Research at Mars, Inc., maker of iconic brands like M&Ms, Snickers, Mars Bar, Wrigley’s gum, Pedigree pet food and more. Mars – with $45bn in annual revenue and employing some 130,000+ associates – was the incubator for the EoM business model management innovation and funded the launch in 2020 of the independent EoM organization. EoM now consists of the not-for-profit EoM Foundation, which delivers the EoM approach through global educational partnerships, such as with Oxford University and the UN Global Compact, and through research and advocacy; EoM Solutions, owned by the Foundation, but a for-profit consultancy delivering EoM to corporate clients; the Jubilee Economics Foundation, which delivers EoM at a local community empowerment and individual vocational level; and EoM Investments, which is transforming the way investment capital is deployed to use measurable impact to drive superior value creation and performance.
Jay is the co-author of Completing Capitalism: Heal Business to Heal the World (Berrett-Koehler, 2017 & CITIC Press Beijing in Mandarin, 2018). He’s a contributing co-author of Putting Purpose into Practice: The Economics of Mutuality (Oxford University Press, 2021), and is the author of Spies and Saboteurs (Macmillan & St. Martin’s Press, 1999). Jay’s doctorate is from Oxford University, St. John’s College, his MA is from Lancaster University, and his BA is from American University. He has been married to Eleni for 38+ years and they have two Ukranian children, Alex and Anastasia. Jay and Eleni are co-founders of the Christian Healing Institute (www.christianhealinginstitute.org) and serve as healing prayer ministers at the Falls Church Anglican (www.tfcanglican.org), where Jay served on the Vestry, and at Christian Healing Ministries in Florida (www.christianhealingmin.org).
