Andreas Jacobs
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W. Andreas Jacobs is a Bremen
Bremen
The City Municipality of Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. A commercial and industrial city with a major port on the river Weser, Bremen is part of the Bremen-Oldenburg metropolitan area . Bremen is the second most populous city in North Germany and tenth in Germany.Bremen is...

-born entrepreneur
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 who lives in Germany and is a German national.

Biography

Jacobs, the son of billionaire
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 Klaus Johann Jacobs
Klaus Johann Jacobs
Klaus Johann Jacobs was a German-born billionaire with a Swiss citizenship.-Biography:He was born on December 3, 1936 in Bremen, Germany. He attended the University of Hamburg and later Stanford University. He started his career in the global coffee and chocolates industries...

 is descended from a house that dates back over 900 years. He attended the University of Freiburg
University of Freiburg
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, University of Munich and later Montpellier (France). He obtained a doctorate in European competition law from the University of Freiburg, and also earned a Master of Business Administration
Master of Business Administration
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 from INSEAD
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 in Fontainebleau, France.

Since around 1992 Jacobs has been an independent entrepreneur with a stake in several companies (Minibar AG, Baar, and Acentic GmbH) plus minority interests in several other companies. He worked during this period as a consultant and project manager at The Boston Consulting Group
Boston Consulting Group
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 in Munich. One of his more significant investments was the Canadian coffee maker Nabob
Nabob
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 from Jacobs-Suchard, and profited several hundreds of millions of francs in the successful re-launch.
He also participated in the purchase and sale of shoemaker Paiso, Schmidlin and .

In 2003, Jacobs was nominated to the Board of Barry Callebaut
Barry Callebaut
Barry Callebaut is the world's largest chocolate manufacturer.It was created in 1996 through the merging of the Belgian chocolate producer Callebaut and the French company Cacao Barry. It is currently based in Zurich, Switzerland, and operates in 26 countries worldwide...

, and in December 2005, he was appointed Chairman of the Board. He is a member of the Nomination and Compensation Committee. His current term expires in 2008.

He is also Chairman of Jacobs Holding AG, Vice Chairman of Infront Sports & Media AG and member of the Board of Adecco SA.

Other appointments and commitments:
Executive Chairman of Jacobs Holding AG (Switzerland)
Chairman of Barry Callebaut AG (Switzerland)
Vice-Chairman of Infront Sports & Media AG( Switzerland)
Chairman of Minibar AG (Switzerland)
Chairman of Focam AG (Germany)
Chairman of Maine Chance Farms Pty Ltd. (South Africa)
Member of Board of Adecco SA (Switzerland)

Personal

In addition to being a son of his famous father, he has a brother Christian, and he is married to Natalie Jacobs and has four children - Nicholas Patrice, Constantin Lucien, Chiara Camille and Louis Alexy.

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