Spring 2024 Buffalo Business 11
Jeff Jacobson, BS '81
Former CEO, Xerox
Current Executive Chairman, EFI and Fiery
LLC, and Executive Partner, Siris Capital
Group
With more than 30 years of
global experience in industrial tech-
nology and imaging, Jeff Jacobson
rose to the top by helping custom-
ers improve their productivity and
enhance their operations — and by
committing to help remedy inequi-
ties in the business world.
Jacobson is executive chairman
of Electronics for Imaging and Fiery
LLC, as well as executive partner at Siris Capital Group.
Previously, as CEO of Xerox Corp., he oversaw the larg-
est product launch in its more than 100-year-history. He
also served as CEO of Electronics for Imaging; president,
CEO and chairman of Presstek; chief operating officer of
Eastman Kodak's Graphic Communications Group and CEO
of Kodak Polychrome Graphics.
Through all of his success, Jacobson has never forgot-
ten his alma mater and the students beginning their profes-
sional journeys here. He and his wife, Irene, started two
scholarship funds, one for incoming MBAs and one focused
on diversity, equity and inclusion.
" One of the classes at the School of Management I
embraced and embedded in who I am in life and in busi-
ness was organizational behavior. It was understand-
ing human behavior, as my father understood me, that
not everyone responds to the same messages, and they
need to be tailored. That not everyone is perfect, and in
fact, everyone has areas of opportunity. I learned that
we need to understand each person's strengths and put
people into a position where we can accentuate their
positives, and surround them with those who can shore
up their areas of opportunity."
Preserving the Moment: After Dean Iyer and the nine honorees
gave remarks at the awards ceremony, they placed them in a time
capsule that will be held by UB's University Archives to be opened
on the school's 200th anniversary in 2123. Additional present-day
items will also be added to the time capsule through the end of
the school's centennial year, which concludes in May. Photo: Tom Wolf
