Michael Jones is the former CEO of Userplane and former Senior Vice President of AOL. He brought Userplane from a startup services business to an applications provider and an AOL subsidiary.

At AOL, Jones a Senior Vice President and manages Userplane within the Products division. He coordinates with other AOL subsidiaries and internal brands to enable distribution of Web applications to publishers under the Userplane brand.

After leaving AOL Jones started Tsavo, a web media company that launched with a rumored $20m in financial backing. His time as Tsavo’s CEO was short as MySpace’s new CEO made Jones his first hire in 2009, making him COO.

Jones’ opened his first Web consulting business during his junior year of college, and eventually migrated his practice into PBJ Digital, a 40-person firm that served an estimated 200 companies, including Sony and UPN. After selling PBJ Digital, Jones and his partners, Nate Thelen, Kevin Prentiss, and Javier Hall, formed Userplane.

Jones has a Bachelor of Arts in International Business and Marketing from the University of Oregon and was named the Universities Student Entrepreneur of the Year in 1997.

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Mike Jones invested in Goodreads. (11/1/07)

Posted 12/17/07 at 8:00am
Mike Jones added a position as Board Member at PeopleMedia.

Posted 2/22/08 at 12:20am
Mike Jones added a position as Advisor at Phonevite.

Posted 5/8/09 at 10:17am
Mike Jones added a position as CEO at Tsavo Media.

Posted 8/20/08 at 9:12am
Mike Jones added a position as COO at MySpace.

Posted 7/22/09 at 9:33am
Mike Jones added a position as Board Member at Docstoc.

Posted 2/22/08 at 12:20am
Mike Jones added a position as SVP at AOL.

Posted 2/22/08 at 12:20am
Mike Jones added a position as CEO at Userplane.

Posted 2/5/08 at 2:43pm
Mike Jones added a position as Board Member at Tsavo Media.

Posted 7/22/09 at 9:37am