Tue,
11/08/2022 – 11:09am | By: Van Arnold
Jonathan Jones, Chief Govt Officer of personal fairness agency Jones Capital, has
been chosen because the 2022 Boardman Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Yr by the Faculty
of Enterprise and Financial Growth at The College of Southern Mississippi (USM).
Jones can be formally acknowledged throughout a luncheon set for Nov. 17 on the Trent Lott
Nationwide Middle on USM’s Hattiesburg campus. These planning to attend are requested to
RSVP at this hyperlink: https://usmforms.formstack.com/forms/eoty
As the corporate’s CEO, Jones’ steering, philosophies, and values drive Jones Capital’s
tradition and technique. He joined the corporate in 2003 after incomes a Bachelor of Accountancy
from the College of Mississippi. Jones labored his manner from assistant controller
to CEO, as he helped set up a broader imaginative and prescient for the corporate’s future.
Beneath his management, Jones Capital has grown to grow to be extra acquisitive and now contains
a variety of middle-market working firms and direct actual property investments.
Jones Capital has headquarters in Hattiesburg, Miss., and Houston, Texas.
Jones employed a baseball analogy to explain the corporate’s spectacular trajectory.
“I’m humbled to obtain the Entrepreneur of the Yr award from The College of
Southern Mississippi,” stated Jones, a local of Sandy Hook, Miss. “At Jones, we try
to hit a ‘single” day by day. Our firm seems to have grown quickly, when in reality,
we’ve simply been disciplined towards rising a small quantity every day and fortunately,
seeing a lot of these ‘singles’ become doubles and even triples. Being honored
with this award is a testomony to the tenacity of my staff.”
Dr. Bret Becton, Dean of USM’s Faculty of Enterprise and Financial Growth, factors
out that the faculty started recognizing excellent entrepreneurs greater than twenty years
in the past to highlight entrepreneurship as an instructional endeavor and supply college students and
college with real-life examples of entrepreneurship “performed the best manner.”
“Jonathan embodies each criterion we use to pick our honoree,” stated Becton. “He
has an unstoppable entrepreneurial spirit, a strategic mindset and passionate imaginative and prescient,
a document of impactful and spectacular success, a steadfast dedication to innovation,
and unquestionable integrity. I want to congratulate Jonathan Jones on this
much-deserved honor and thank him for permitting us to acknowledge his accomplishments.”
Jones Capital started as a household enterprise with a easy mission: to assist communities,
present jobs, and improve lives. Right now, Jones carries on that mission by being a growth-oriented,
value-added capital companion to companies and administration groups that share the agency’s
widespread values and imaginative and prescient for long-term, sustainable progress that advantages all stakeholders
– clients, communities, staff, and shareholders.
Amongst his quite a few awards and honors, Jones was named A Prime 40 Beneath 40 by the Mississippi
Enterprise Journal in 2009; a Prime 50 in Mississippi by the MBJ in 2019, and the 2016
Ernst and Younger Entrepreneur of the Yr for Diversified and Industrial Merchandise.
Jones at present serves as certainly one of 5 members chosen to be on the chief staff
for the Governor’s Fee for Financial Restoration. The group works with different enterprise
leaders to assist advise Gov. Tate Reeves on methods to get the state rejuvenated within the
aftermath of COVID-19.
Jones and his spouse, Paula, have two youngsters – Jules (8) and Thomas (4).
The Entrepreneur of the Yr occasion is sponsored by the late Joseph Boardman Jr., a
1953 graduate of Southern Miss, who majored in advertising. A previous president of the
Southern Miss Alumni Affiliation and former member of the USM Basis Board, Boardman
additionally served 18 years on the Harrison County Growth Fee.
