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Donald Jones
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Donald Jones is a globally recognized leader in digital medicine, digital therapies and technology enabled health services. He is a sought out as a speaker, advisor and board member. He works across a spectrum of healthcare, pharmaceutical, medical device, wearable, apparel, material science and healthcare AI companies. As Chair of the Cardiff Ocean Group, he is an independent director on the boards of venture capital backed companies with strategic investors including GE, Telus, Qualcomm, Reed Elsevier, Takeda, BCG Digital Ventures and Adidas. His Fortune 1000 Advisory Boards have included Flex, TEVA, JSR, Sanofi, Otsuka, Takeda and MAS Holdings. Don has advised the Board of Directors and Executive suites of many of the largest pharmaceutical companies. He advises Onduo, a Verily/Sanofi joint venture, and Huami/PAI, the world’s largest wearables company. He is an GLG Institute Advisor and a Senior Advisor with McKinsey & Company. Jones serves as Chief Digital Officer of the Scripps Research Translational Institute (SRTI), an Institute within Scripps Research, collaborating with the renowned Eric Topol, MD. SRTI holds the largest NIH grant in history, part of the ‘All of Us’ Precision Medicine Initiative. He co-founded Scripps Digital Medicine, the world’s first digital health clinical trial center and the non-profit West Health Institute, raising over $130 million.
For 11 years, Don led Qualcomm’s Wireless Health Global Strategy and Business Development and founded its healthcare subsidiary. In 2005 he founded Wireless Life Sciences Alliance, merged with HIMSS in 2016 and is now Chairman Emeritus. Earlier in his career, Don was COO of MedTrans, which grew from $4.5 million into the largest emergency services provider in the US (now named American Medical Response), operating with more than 25,000 paramedics and 5,500 ambulances. He was Founder and Chairman of EMME, the largest consumer membership healthcare provider in Mexico, employing over 450 physicians. While advising the CEO and Board of AMR, he helped build the largest medical group in the US, under the EmCare brand. In 2014, EvoNexus recognized Donald Jones as Digital Health Innovator of the Year. Don conceived the $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE, a global competition for a consumer device which successfully makes medical diagnoses. The prize was awarded, in Hollywood, in April 2017. |
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