Don Jones, JD, MBA

Donald has over two decades of experience as a founder, independent Board Member, and Advisory Board member of numerous companies. He works in a balance of Venture Capitalist and Private Equity backed companies and Fortune 1000 companies. His expertise is in applied technology enabling mobility, connectivity, and network effects in healthcare and value-based solutions. His work extends across digital medicine, digital therapeutics, digital health, virtual-first care, and digital transformation. He has an extensive C-suite operating background in EMS, acting as the COO of the largest company in the world, with 29,000 paramedics, growing to $2.5B, Emergency Medicine, forming the largest medical group in the US with 25,000 physicians, growing to $2.5B, house calls, telemedicine, urgent care, M&A, and big data predictive analytics. Donald is also the founder and Chair of the largest private practice in Mexico, a business built around consumer subscriptions. Further accomplishments include building Qualcomm’s Wireless Health Group off a blank sheet of paper. Some of Donald’s notable current operations include acting as an operating partner for Takeda Digital Ventures, a strategic venture capital focused on virtual first healthcare services and technology solutions, Chief Digital Officer of the Scripps Research Translational Institute collaborating with Eric Topol, and as founder of the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe), a virtual-first medical practice collaborative. Donald has a JD from the University of San Diego School of Law and an MBA from the University of California, Irvine.