Alex Jacobs-Hajian • linkedin.

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aj@alexjacobs.ca • +1-778-233-9525 • San Francisco, California
Profile
CxO executive strategy and operations management consultant focused on mergers and acquisitions, with
deep business and legal expertise, coupled with solid technology acumen
Client relationship management and value realizations, function-agnostic including digital and technology
strategy, across multiple industries including technology, media, and telecommunications

Recent Professional Experience

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) 2018-Present

Advisory Manager, Technology, Media, and Telecom Deals Practice
• Directed the end-to-end integration and go-to-market execution of a $2.3B acquisition of a digital identity
protection services by a leading anti-virus software company, by consulting the acquirer’s executive
leadership in identifying their growth strategy, collaborating with various legal and business vice-presidents
to craft a detailed roadmap, and further ensured all required multi-stakeholder launch sign-offs are obtained
• Acted as the regional lead for a $40B+ legal entity separation with a bio-pharma, health-care, and
pharmaceutical conglomerate, and managed global leaderships stakeholders, facilitated all in-house
counsels’ discussions with external partners and service providers, to ensure timely decisions’ approvals
• Collaborated with respective managing directors and practice leads on crafting the regional prospective
clients list, and help curate a targeted sales pipeline based on the fiscal year’s strategic plans
• Acted as the local trusted strategic advisor when drafting proposals and prospective client oral presentations
to hone the executive level messaging and further ensure the alignment with the client’s objectives

Deloitte 2016-2018
Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory, Strategy and Operations Manager
• Led end-to-end IT integration at a $435MM cross-border acquisition by a Canadian oil producer through a
successful day-1 transition, while maintaining continuity and data integrity; managed all transition service
agreements’ negotiations between both parties’ business and IT leaderships to ensure cross-business
alignments
• Continuously helped build client’s knowledge base and further prepared local account leaderships for client
meetings, including preparing client needs assessment, meeting debriefs, and setting introductory calls
• Managed the integration of marketing function at a $1.46B oil and gas acquisition; worked closely with all
128 sites, refinery, and acquirer’s executive leadership to align on organizations growth strategy while
delivering seamless day-1 cut-over, through extensive advance planning and assessment of various units’
maturity levels
• Built extensive knowledge of firm’s global offerings within each geography, to understand various firm’s
sectors and practice groups, and align with firm’s priorities and targeted clients list

Accenture Strategy 2014-2016

Global Mergers & Acquisitions Manager
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• Managed Accenture Canada’s inorganic growth initiative and worked closely with the Canadian CEO and
North American leadership; identified and screened over 250 acquisition targets nationally, and successfully
closed two transactions (valued over $50MM) with the support of Accenture’s Global Corporate
Development Office
• Led a comprehensive executive-level strategy engagement at a utility client; attained aggressive waste
reduction goals, maximized stakeholders’ collaborations cross-functionally, and resulted in reduction of
duplicate work across a 400-person operations team led by senior and national executives
• Managed operational due diligence and synergy assessment for a $2.4B retail industry merger; identified in
excess of $15MM upfront synergy gains, with an additional $18-20MM co-shared operational gains within
new entity’s combined ‘Demand & Supply Planning and Management’ to maximize ROI within 3 years post-
close
• Supported IT applications’ integration and developed a cohesive future-state IT strategy at a U$47B cross-
border technology acquisition; liaised with both the target and acquirer, to identify gaps in application
portfolios and created a prioritized delivery roadmap focused on ERP and Payroll systems to avoid any
missed payments
• Managed a customer experience and digital strategy engagement at a telecom client; mapped the customer
journey from acquisition to termination across all channels (telephony, digital, and in-person) and identified
major hand-offs and provided recommendations to remove barriers to customer satisfaction and journey

Prior Professional Experience

TELUS, Technology Strategy and Operations, Vancouver, Canada 2013-2014

Business Consultant (to Vice-President, Planning & Engineering – a National team of over 350)
Dean’s Office, Lawrence Centre for Management, Ivey Business School, London, Canada 2013-2014
Research Associate (a $100K project with Industry Canada, CIBC, & Canadian Council of Chief Executives)
Bell Mobility – Bell Canada, Mississauga, Canada 2012-2013
Go-To Market Consultant
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 2009-2010
Fundraiser Lead – Development Call Centre
National Broadcasting Corporation – National Internet Services Company, Tehran, Iran 2001-2004
Network Engineer Manager

Education
Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, USA 2018
Master of Law (LLM) – Part-Time
Ivey Business School, Western University, London, Canada 2013
Master of Business Administration (MBA) (ranked 1st in international programs)
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 2011
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Economics (ranked 2nd in Canada)
University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran 2007
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (ranked 1st in Iran)
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