Jacob Andra
CEO and founder in Salt Lake City, Utah
Jacob Andra is the founder and CEO of Talbot West, an enterprise advisory and engineering firm focused on discovering and developing consequential economic opportunities across companies and industrial systems.
His work spans enterprise strategy, artificial intelligence, organizational intelligence, industrial capability, and the relationships among technology, capital, and productive enterprise. He brings decades of business leadership and an integrative approach to opportunities that require expertise and action across conventional organizational and institutional boundaries.
Jacob is the author of A Theory of Enterprise Coherence, which examines how organizations perceive, decide, act, and learn, and how their capabilities and structures shape the economic possibilities available to them.
He also leads the American Industrial Capability Project (AICP), an initiative advancing research, relationships, and opportunities to strengthen American industrial capacity, particularly in defense and advanced manufacturing.
Beyond Talbot West, Jacob advises 47G on enterprise matters, serves on the advisory board of Lucidity Sciences, an advanced machine learning company, and is an Industry Advisory Board member at Neumont University, where he has lectured on AI engineering.
He is based in the Salt Lake City area of Utah.