Jason Jakubowski is CEO of Connecticut Foodshare, the new, rebranded nonprofit created as a result of the 2021 merger between Foodshare and Connecticut Food Bank.
The combination represented one of the biggest nonprofit mergers in recent memory.
Both entities operated as regional food banks, and Jakubowski was chosen to lead the combined organization that now has a statewide focus.
Despite some early growing pains, Jakubowski told HBJ in October that the merger had been going well and has helped the newly-formed organization focus its mission.
Aside from the merger, Jakubowski had to lead through the pandemic, which led to increased demand for food banks as some people lost jobs or were forced to leave the workforce to care for family.
Jakubowski was named president and CEO of Foodshare in July 2017, after working as the vice president of external relations at the Hospital for Special Care in New Britain. Prior to that he was director of corporate and community development at Charter Oak State College.
He’s been involved in the state through much of his adulthood, formerly serving as a city council member in New Britain.