Adam Jacobs

Adam Jacobs is President of Xzōm, a San Diego based liquid biopsy platform and AI Company, enabling the early detection of disease and cancers. He is also founding partner of the Jacobs Scheriff Group, a business consulting company with a mission of enhancing the value of businesses and organizations that have a strong focus on societal impact.  A graduate of Cornell University and three-year captain and starting catcher of the Big Red baseball team, Adam received a BS in applied economics and management from the Dyson School in the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business in 2009. He is part of a multigenerational Cornell family, also including his grandparents Irwin M. Jacobs ’54, BEE ’56, and the late Joan K. Jacobs ’54, whom together founded the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech. The Jacobs Institute advances graduate tech education, academic entrepreneurship, and innovation, and spans the Cornell Tech campus in New York City and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.

In addition to his role with Xzōm and the Jacobs Scheriff Group, Adam is an investor in several startups focused on social change and a real estate entrepreneur.  He is also highly involved in San Diego, enhancing and extending his family’s long tradition of engagement and philanthropy in the city. Adam serves on the Dean’s Council of Advisors for the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering, he is an executive board member of the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center; as cochair of the La Jolla Playhouse’s Innovation Night; and is also involved with the San Diego Food Bank, San Diego Symphony, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, Jewish Family Service, and in the ambassador cohort for the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations among others. He actively supports initiatives addressing housing, homelessness, and food insecurity, and is a member of The Giving Pledge Next Gen cohort and a former member of Forward Global.

Adam and his wife Amy, a trustee of the Salk Institute, have established the Amy and Adam Jacobs Family Philanthropic Fund through the Jewish Community Foundation and have 2 young daughters and a son.