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Throughout his career, Jackson has brought entrepreneurship and excellence to business, government, higher education, and the nonprofit sector. He has focused his personal and professional life at the intersection of business, government and civil society, where he has been a bridge builder. At the age of 26, he was chief of staff to Boston’s Mayor Kevin White. At 32, he was the Senior Associate Dean of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he helped lead the School during its period of rapid growth and institutional transformation. He left the Kennedy School to become Commissioner of Revenue for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where he was credited with being one of the architects of the “Massachusetts economic miracle.” Jackson established an innovative model of “honest, fair and firm” tax administration that restored public confidence in the integrity, professionalism, and responsiveness of the agency through vigorous reforms. His leadership was recognized by the Massachusetts Taxpayers’ Association with their first Lyman Ziegler Award for Outstanding Public Service, and his management style and experience is the subject of a widely used management case study written by Prof. Robert Behn of Duke University. Jackson served as Executive Vice President of BankBoston for a dozen years. During his tenure at BankBoston, the company consistently received Outstanding Community Reinvestment Act ratings from federal regulators for leadership in strengthening inner-city communities. This leadership was recognized by the Conference Board with the Ron Brown Award for Corporate Citizenship at a ceremony at the White House. Jackson’s role in helping to support and expand CityYear earned him their “Big Citizen Award.” For his work in the public, private and nonprofit sectors, the Kennedy School presented Jackson with its Outstanding Alumni Award in its second year. Jackson returned to Harvard as the Director of its Center for Business and Government at the Kennedy School and later became the first president of the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation in Atlanta. Prior to coming to Claremont, he was President and CEO of the Arizona State University Foundation. Under Jackson’s leadership, the Foundation achieved close alignment with the University, restructured and strengthened its board and governance structure, and made strides toward becoming a highly professional, donor-centric, and entrepreneurial institution. During Jackson’s tenure the foundation grew ASU’s endowment 45% to $403 million, investment returns on the Foundation’s pooled endowment fund increased to 22%, and fundraising from individuals, corporations and foundations doubled from its historic base, to $150 million. Throughout his career in business, government, and the university, Jackson has been active in civic and community life and has assumed leadership roles in a number of innovative nonprofit organizations, including CityYear, Jumpstart, and Facing History and Ourselves. He chaired the United Way’s award-winning Success by Six campaigns in Massachusetts, chaired the program and grants committee of the Boston Foundation, and has been a leader in a wide variety of other organizations, from the Boston Municipal Research Bureau to the South Boston Neighborhood House. For many years, he chaired the New England Council and the World Affairs Council. He also served on the boards of Cambridge Neuro Science and Bank of Vermont. He is a founding board member of the Alliance for the Commercialization of Technology (ACT), and serves on the board of Community Wealth Ventures, City Hall Fellows, the Claremont Chamber of Commerce, the Taubman Center for State and Local Government at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and the Legatum Center for Innovation and Development at MIT. Jackson received an A.B. from Harvard College and an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government, and attended the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School. He is co-author (with Jane Nelson) of Profits with Principles: Seven Strategies for Delivering Value with Values (Doubleday, 2004), described by Tom Peters as “a stunning achievement….and a survival guide for business executives and a survival guide for capitalism itself.” Jackson is married to Martha White Jackson, a teacher and community activist. They have four children: Kate, Joseph, Matthew, and Alex.
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