George Jones

George Jones is a founding member of Sand Hill Angels from the year 2000. Its founding principles are still in place today. He has served as an officer and board member of the group over the years. Mr. Jones also serves as Managing Director of Synthesis Consulting with a focus on strategy, advanced energy, marketing, and sales. Previously, he served as president of Pathion Inc., an energy storage systems company headquartered in Silicon Valley. Pathion produces battery-based stationary energy storage systems for commercial, industrial, and grid-scale installations. Prior to Pathion, Mr. Jones was VP/GM of AppliedMicro’s Connectivity Products [NASDAQ:AMCC]. Chartered to turn the group around, he increased revenue by 10%/quarter in 2012 and 2013 to exceed $100M and become AppliedMicro’s largest business unit as measured by both revenue and margins. Mr. Jones led several successful mergers and acquisitions during this time, including a Denmark-based company for which he served as president. Previously, as RMI Corporation’s first VP of Sales, Mr. Jones built a high-performance sales team from the ground up to win significant engagements with Tier 1 networking, security, telecommunication, and media customers, leading to $80M of revenue. The company was acquired by NetLogic. The year following the acquisition, the RMI business unit met its $120M revenue earn-out threshold. NetLogic was later acquired by Broadcom. Mr. Jones was a co-founder and chief executive officer of Phase II Technical Sales, a leader among technical sales representatives with offices up and down the west coast of the US. Mr. Jones earned an MBA at the Wharton School, and a holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech.