Chad Jones

Chad Jones is an energetic, innovative technical and marketing professional leading cutting edge ISV and consulting companies. Mr. Jones has more than 18 years’ experience in product strategy and development in cloud, virtualization and infrastructure technologies including several exits with beneficial outcomes. His ability to understand complex and nuanced technology combined with an uncanny sense of target market and business needs drives a unique perspective. This perspective allows Mr. Jones to shape product and market strategies that capitalize on differentiated value then clearly articulate this value through enlightened positioning and thought leadership.

Mr. Jones splits his time as an angel investor with exciting companies across the tech, beverage, and sports worlds, with his role as Vice President, Product Strategy for the Internet of Things platform known as Xively. Before Xively, he was VP, Strategy and PM with leading private cloud vendor DynamicOps, which was acquired by VMware. Prior to DynamicOps, he was VP, Product Management for a client hypervisor company named Neocleus, which was acquired by Intel. He also spent 2 years at Microsoft as Sr. PM responsible for application virtualization strategic planning, marketing and evangelism as part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack team (MDOP). MDOP became the fastest growing product in Microsoft history with over 35 million licenses sold in two years. Mr. Jones joined Microsoft through the acquisition of Softricity, a Boston based ISV. He is one of the creators of Softricity SoftGrid which pioneered application virtualization.

Mr. Jones’ strong leadership and management skills coupled with demonstrated ability to achieve profitable growth have helped a wide range of businesses. Principal strengths include strategic planning, global marketing, business and software development and evangelism which have driven a proven record of success for employees, customers, partners and investors.

Specialties:Virtualization and Cloud technologies including application, presentation, hardware, OS, public and private cloud as well as other virtualization products; Infrastructure development, design and implementation; software design and development management.