In 1997, Jacobson and his partners joined with Russ Wilcox, an entrepreneur from Harvard Business School, to form E Ink.

NEWYORKER: A New Page

E-Ink enthusiasts will likely have to wait until 2009 for color E-ink and as late as 2012 for video, says Russ Wilcox, the chief executive of Cambridge, Mass.

FORBES: Breakthroughs

"At the start of the season I wasn't involved and I had to go to and play my football at Sheffield Wednesday, and I'm grateful to the manager there Brian Laws and his assistant Russ Wilcox who gave me an opportunity to go and play again , " he explained.

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