Patty Jacobson

With wide-ranging experience across multiple industries and functions, Patty Jacobson
excels at bridging the gap between technology, strategy, and organizational readiness. At
Combined Jewish Philanthropies, she helped craft and launch a new strategic plan, re-brand the
organization, re-plumb the information architecture of the organization and also built a new social-
media enabled community website.

Prior to her work in the non-profit world, Patty founded a technology consulting company,
specializing in collaborative applications and strategic consulting. She became an early pioneer
in the Software as a Service world after her firm was acquired by Interliant (later Navisite)
in 1999. She graduated cum laude with honors from Yale University with a degree in East
Asian Studies and received her Master’s of Science in Management from the Sloan School of
Management at M.I.T.