Robert S. Jones

Biography - Robert S. Jones It’s just not everyone, who is born on April 1 in the middle of a World War II black-out that has a good sense of humor. Being born in the dark, some still wonder which end got slapped by the doctor as his first wake-up call. It has become a tradition at the Jones home, that when Bob’s Birthday cake is lighted, all the lights are turned off in honor. Bob was born April 1st 1942 at 8:42 PM in Pasadena California where he survived his first 20 years. He joined the Military in 1962, during the Vietnam conflict and served in the U.S. Army as a Nuclear Weapons Maintenance Specialist. While in Nuclear training, he met his wife Nancy and they were married in 1964. He saw service in Western Germany, was discharged honorably in 1965 and returned to California. In civilian life, Bob sought employment in sales and marketing within the technical fields of computers and electronic component sub systems where he flourished for the next ten years. During this time he returned to college in pursuit of his higher education. He attended DeAnza College, Glendale College and received his first degree (AA) from Cypress College. He continued at Cal State Fullerton in pursuit of his Bachelors Degree while working for Intel Corporation in its formative years. His entrepreneurial spirit took over in 1975 and he started a very successful multi-national publishing company with offices in the U.S., Europe and Asia. The corporate publishing focus was in the newly burgeoning micro-computer field. He grew this fledgling company with an initial personal capital investment of $5,000, to producing over $7,000,000 in annual sales after 10 years without the advantage of any outside investment funds. In 1985 he founded an online service and publishing company and nurtured it until the inception of the Internet in 1994. The corporation was then infused with $5,000,000 in investment capitalization and sent on a high productivity growth curve servicing over 4,798 software firms. It was ultimately sold in 1997 to a Texas conglomerate. Bob has been an industry consultant for a number of years servicing the computer, Internet and technical business arena. To his credit, he has been instrumental in creating a number of corporate expansion success stories. Among them is Intel's Military Products Division planning and creation, the media introduction and early marketing launch of Apple Computer.