Greg Jones

Greg is a highly effective leader of strategic design and research teams. With over 30 years of experience defining, developing, and delivering award-winning, user-centric products and experiences for global markets, he brings a unique combination of engineering and design expertise coupled with strong management and creative skills applied to guiding critical product and business decisions.

Most recently Greg was Creative Director for Amazon AWS Physical Stores Technology. Prior to joining Amazon, he led development of Microsoft Surface product lines and Xbox product development for Xbox One, Xbox 360 and Kinect.  Under his leadership, the Xbox product development culture was recrafted to modernize and integrate design and engineering working relationships.

Greg's previous roles include Creative Director for Windows Phone and Zune device and accessories businesses.  Prior to this, he led cross-company initiatives to advance the state of the art for PC hardware/software integration partnering with major OEMs including Dell, Toshiba and Intel.  His background also includes leading design and development teams for Microsoft's PC Hardware business and Symbol Technologies' scanner and portable computing businesses. 

He holds a Master of Industrial Design from Pratt Institute, a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Physics from Whitman College.