Two Babson alumni and entrepreneurs have been selected to serve on the 2024 Boston Olympics Advisory Board. The two selected are Jon Feinman M’10 and Jason Jacobs M’05. The 2024 Boston Olympics Advisory Board members will work toward advancing the Boston area with the vision of hosting the 2024 Olympic games.
The Board will provide governance oversight on issues regarding the city’s bid to host the 2024 Olympics. The Board will also oversee the final bid for the games. Co-owner and Managing Partner of the Boston Celtics, Steve Pagliuca, will serve as chair the Board. Pagliuca is also the Managing Director at Bain Capital.
Jon Feinman is the Founder and Executive Director of Innercity Weightlifting, a non-profit group that specializes in weightlifting and training for at-risk Boston youth. Feinman is also a previous Olympic weightlifter. In addition to providing training for weightlifting, ICW also provides an in house career track for personal training as well as tutors and GED program support for students.
Jason Jacobs M’05, is the Co-Founder and CEO of RunKeeper, a GPS fitness-tracking app that has more than 40 million users. The app was first launched in 2008. RunKeeper tracks activities using GPS and provides users with detailed statistics about their pace, distance and time. The app also provides coaching advice for users to advance their progress through audio cues through their headphones and can measure heart rate and store pictures to share.
The 2024 Boston Olympics Advisory Board will meet twice a year as a full board to help advise other Board committees such as audit, executive and governance committees.