Robert Jacobson

     Robert A. Jacobson is Senior Vice President and Director of Operations for IMPAC, the world leader in productivity enhancement. He has served IMPAC (Integrated Control Systems, Inc.) also as Chairman of Senior Management. In addition Jacobson has responsibility for training all IMPAC operational personnel around the world.

     Mr. Jacobson has worked for IMPAC for more than 31 years, and has held positions of increasing authority and responsibility during this entire timeframe for this worldwide organization. In addition, Mr. Jacobson currently serves as Chairman of the Board of the Association of Productivity Specialists, the leading professional organization in the field. As Chairman of the Association's Board of Directors, Jacobson participated in VISION 2000 in Prague, The Czech Republic. Mr. Jacobson is a certified Master Productivity Specialist in that association.

     A Lead Assessor for the International Organization of Standardization (ISO) 9000, Mr. Jacobson was invited to be a member of the U.S. Technical Advisory Group to the Technical Committee 207 for the International Standards Organization. This Technical Committee is responsible for establishing the new ISO 14000 Standards, which are being formulated on Environmental Management Systems. Jacobson has conducted seminars on ISO 9000 in Prague; Jakarta, Indonesia; Warsaw, Poland; Helsinki, Finland; Mexico City, Mexico, and many other numerous cities in the United States and around the world.

     Mr. Jacobson has also been a speaker at the Global Panel in Maastricht, The Netherlands, in 1993 and 1994. His co-speakers included Carlos Menem, President of Argentina; Per Gyllenhammer, former Chairman of Volvo, and chief executive officers from United Parcel Service, Visa International, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Honeywell Bull. He has been a speaker also at the World Gaming Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, and the Society for Health Systems in New Orleans, Louisiana. Mr. Jacobson is a speaker and trainer in seminars conducted by his company in conjunction with the United States Military Academy at West Point on the subject of leadership and the modern Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

     Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Jacobson earned both a master's degree in business administration and a bachelor's degree in (pre-med) biology, with minor's in physics and chemistry, at New Mexico Highlands University, and an associate of arts degree, with honors, from Chicago City College. While at Highlands University, he received a Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education Fellowship working with the Southwest Colorado Regional Economic Development Board. During that period, he co-authored the initial database of all economic and statistical information available for that five-county region. Jacobson also served his alma mater by acting as First Vice President of the New Mexico Highlands University Foundation.
 

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