[8] Starting in human resources,[9] he then served as the company's CEO,[8] where according to the Rochester Business Journal he led a "turnaround" resulting in the sale of the company to Kodak,[10] where he then served as chief operating officer of Kodak's[1] $3.6 billion Graphic Communications Group.
[8] From 2007 until 2012 he was president and CEO of Presstek,[1] a manufacturer of digital offset printing products,[8] also serving as chairman for three years.
[3] He announced a number of changes at Xerox in 2017, including its largest product launch,[12] as well as a new focus on "small and midsize" companies to "cut dependence on its large enterprise customers," with the latter seen by analysts as a declining market.
[16] On May 1, 2018, Xerox announced that under a deal with dissident investor Carl Icahn, Jacobson would resign as chief executive and director.
[19] Jacobson was then appointed executive chairman of Electronics for Imaging (EFI), a technology company headquartered in Fremont, California, in July 2019.