Executive leader, founder, strategist, mentor and business developer
Greater Denver Area
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- President & Owner at Colorado Careers
- Past
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- VPHR at Adam Aircraft
- President & Principal at TurningPoint of the Rockies
- President, Owner at M&J Industies
- CEO at Sheaffer Pen Co
- Manufacturing Director at Parker Pen Co
- Education
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- Brighton School of Business
- Rolls Royce Aero Engines - Engineering Apprenceship
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Owen Jones’s Summary
The entrepreneur in Owen is equally at home in a corporation as in a startup or turnaround. As a catalyst for change, he gets his 'kicks' from leading and enabling others to accomplish more than they ever could have expected.
Prior to starting up small businesses and leading turnarounds, Owen served in a variety of senior executive positions in international consumer products, aerospace and automotive industries. Before moving to Colorado, he was President and an owner of M&J industries in Ohio, a tier one supplier to the heavy truck industry. He also held CEO and COO positions at Sheaffer Pen, Inc., Iowa and senior management positions at Parker Pen Co, and Gillette in both Wisconsin and England. Owen holds a post-graduate degree in management and a degree in manufacturing engineering gained with an engineering apprenticeship at Rolls Royce Aero Engines, Derby, England.
Owen Jones’s Specialties:
Skilled at leading business development strategies - particularly from the perspective of people, teams, lean methods and customer relations. Skills are biased towards executive leadership, operations and business development.
Owen Jones’s Experience
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President & Owner
Colorado Careers
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
March 2004 — Present (5 years 9 months)
Colorado Careers enables executive and professional clients to integrate rapidly into the Front Range business community and launch great Careers - in a great State. In house assignments for leadership development and executive team building.
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VPHR
Adam Aircraft
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Aviation & Aerospace industry)
2007 — 2008 (1 year )
Executive and management team recruiting and development. Operational organisation development.
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President & Principal
TurningPoint of the Rockies
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
2000 — May 2005 (5 years )
A startup mountain retreat for executive leadership development
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President, Owner
M&J Industies
(Automotive industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years )
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CEO
Sheaffer Pen Co
(Consumer Goods industry)
1994 — 1999 (5 years )
Invested and with a small team, led a 5 year turnaround from the brink of bankruptcy with union constraints to its ultimate sale to BIC
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Manufacturing Director
Parker Pen Co
(Consumer Goods industry)
1971 — 1994 (23 years )
Member of the 7 year MBO that turned the company around and ultimately sold to Gillette after a year long anti-trust stuggle
Owen Jones’s Education
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Brighton School of Business
Management , Distinction Awarded in Marketing , 1978 — 1982
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Rolls Royce Aero Engines - Engineering Apprenceship
Mechanical Engineering , Manufacturing Technology , 1965 — 1972
Seven year residential engineering apprenceship with special assignments in a startup in Ireland and RB211 fan-jet development
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Owen Jones’s Interests:
Offroad expeditions in the 'high country' of Colorado and Utah, Endurance running at altitude, Mountain and road cycling, keeping busy!
