Senior Director External ResearchMars, Incorporated / Catalyst
Dr. Jay Jakub is the Senior Director of External Research at Mars, Incorporated / Catalyst. Mars is a global Food & Beverage company headquartered near Washington, D.C. with approximately 80k associates and >$35bn in annual revenues. It is known for iconic brands such as M&Ms, Snickers, Mars Bar, Dove chocolate, Pedigree, Whiskas, Caesar’s, Wrigley gum, Uncle Ben’s Rice and many more. Catalyst, which was initially established in the 1950s, is the internal corporate think tank of Mars and is responsible for developing transformational solutions for the business across a variety of disciplines. It reports to a steering group chaired by the CEO. Jay serves as principal deputy to the Mars Chief Economist / Managing Director of Catalyst. He co-leads the Mutuality Laboratory, which has developed a new business model & non-monetized metrics to help move the company (and other organizations) from a profit maximization model to a holistic value optimization approach across Shared Financial Capital, Social Capital, Human Capital, and Natural Capital. He also supervises the work of the Culture Laboratory, which does M&A integration and Strategy ‘smoothing' for Mars. Jay's doctorate is from St. John's College, Oxford. He is married with two teenage children.