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MICHAEL JONES
CEO of Userplane and SVP, AOL
Michael Jones, CEO of Userplane and Senior Vice President of AOL, oversees Userplane\'s business strategy, sales and operations as well as providing strategic oversight to AOL\'s product strategy. As a founder and CEO of Userplane, Jones\' business leadership brought the company from startup to acquisition by AOL in August 2006. As a Senior Vice President of AOL, he now focuses on the growth of AOL\'s syndicated application strategy, under the Userplane brand. This includes coordination with a variety of AOL subsidiaries and internal technologies to pioneer distribution to millions of web publishers as well as AOL\'s strategic positioning as a platform provider to the online community sector.
Userplane now supports more than 50 million users in some 15 countries across 200,000 different web publishers, including top tier web properties like myspace.com, date.com, Red Bull, and Honda. Userplane has been recognized as a pioneer in the Web 2.0 movement, one of the inventors of the open widget distribution model, and among the largest users of Macromedia Flash and Flash Media Server as core, web-application technologies. In addition, Userplane has provided core infrastructure to MySpace since its launch, encompassing communication technologies and, for the first nine months of the MySpace Music, its music playback system.
A serial entrepreneur, Jones founded Elixir Magazine in 1994, a nationally distributed pop-culture music and entertainment magazine. Subsequently Jones founded his first digital production studio PBJ Digital in 1996, during his junior year at the University of Oregon, which he sold in 2000 after growing the company to profitability. He has since launched numerous businesses and participates in fund raising, angel investing and as an advisory board member in various online startups including Nesting.com and Investing.com.
Jones frequently represents AOL and Userplane at conferences and in publications. He was the keynote speaker at the 2007 Social Networking conference, 2003 OFFF conference in Barcelona Spain, a featured presenter at Flash Forward 2003, BlogON 2004, SITRAS 2004, and Digital Hollywood 2006-2008. He has also been published in numerous Internet journals, including iMediaConnection.
Jones earned his Bachelor of Arts in International Business and Marketing from the University of Oregon.