Simon Jones

Current

• Founder (Munich board) at Mobile Monday Munich
• Immediate Past-President at American-German Business Club, Munich chapter
• Managing Director / Geschäftsführer at OnPR GmbH

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Past

• President at American-German Business Club, Munich chapter
• General Manager, European operations at OnPR
• Vice-President, Communications at American-German Business Club, Munich chapter

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Simon Jones’s Summary

Focused on excellence in international press and analyst relations. Strategic, agile, experienced and energetic. Optimistic but also realistic.

Simon relishes the privilege of working with international companies, in planning designing, implementing and ultimately reaping the rewards from strategic, result-focused unified communications programs.

After 20 years as a professional communicator, having worked as a journalist and PR, both in-house and for agencies, Simon has run communications programs ranging from the "quick and dirty" through to big ticket activities that take months to come to bear fruit, and has worked with a companies ranging from penniless start-ups through to Fortune 100 companies.

In January 2009, Simon successfully concluded a second term as President of the Munich chapter of the American-German Business Club, a not-for-profit organization focused on building international business trading relations through personal networking.

Simon Jones’s Specialties:

Communications, PR and AR, press and industry analyst relations, energy and focus, customer-centric, seeing the bigger picture, not-for-profit board experience, networker, mentor

Simon Jones’s Experience

• Founder (Munich board)

  Mobile Monday Munich

  (Telecommunications industry)

  February 2009 — Present (11 months)

  MobileMonday is a global community of mobile industry visionaries, developers and influentials fostering cooperation and cross-border business development through virtual and live networking events to share ideas, best practices and trends from global markets.
  
  MobileMonday has the following objectives:
  
  <li> To encourage innovation within the mobile sector.
  <li> To facilitate networking between small and large companies, and between local and foreign.
  <li> To help local companies effectively participate in international initiatives through the import and export of visions, concepts, technologies, know-how and best practices.
  <li> To present innovative visions, trends, studies and forecasts from the mobile marketplace.
  <li> To facilitate and create partnerships.
  <li> To contribute to the education of the broader public through its publications, online presence and media partnerships.
  
  Mobile Monday is organized by a group of dedicated volunteers from around the world. Originating in Helsinki, Finland, in the year 2000, MobileMonday has grown into the world’s leading mobile community.

• Immediate Past-President

  American-German Business Club, Munich chapter

  (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  January 2009 — Present (1 year )

  International cross-cultural business networking organization.

• Managing Director / Geschäftsführer

  OnPR GmbH

  (Privately Held; Public Relations and Communications industry)

  November 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

  OnPR is a team of professionals with decades of PR and AR experience working for large global agencies and Fortune 500 clients, who are now dedicated to working hands-on with innovators in wireless, consumer and enterprise technology.

Additional Information

Simon Jones’s Interests:

communicating, networking, putting 2+2 together to make 5, white sports (Alpine skiing - badly, cross-country skiing slowly, sledging too fast)

Simon Jones’s Contact Settings

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