Brad Jacobs

Brad Jacobs is a career CEO with a unique track record as both a Wall Street moneymaker and business builder. He has founded and led eight companies, all of which he grew into billion-dollar or multi-billion-dollar corporations. He has completed approximately 500 M&A transactions and raised $50 billion in debt and equity capital, including three IPOs.

His six publicly traded companies include United Waste, United Rentals, and XPO—along with its two spin-offs, GXO Logistics and RXO—and, more recently, QXO.
Jacobs founded XPO in 2011 and led it to become one of the world’s largest freight transportation providers. XPO’s stock became a "50-bagger," meaning initial investors in 2011 made more than 50 times their original investment.

Before XPO, Jacobs founded United Rentals in 1997 and grew it to become the world’s largest equipment rental provider in just 13 months. United Rentals’ stock has since grown into a “200-bagger.”
XPO ranked as the seventh best-performing Fortune 500 stock over the past decade, while United Rentals was the sixth best-performing stock over the same period.

Earlier in his career, Jacobs built United Waste into the fifth largest solid waste management company in the U.S., with its stock outperforming the S&P 500 by 5.6 times before he sold the business for $2.5 billion in 1997.

Today, Jacobs serves as chairman and CEO of QXO, one of the world's largest building products distributors, and as executive chairman of XPO.