Don Jones
Vice President, Wireless Health, Global Strategy and Market Development, Qualcomm
Donald Jones is vice president of wireless health, global strategy and market development at Qualcomm. He is also the founder and chairman of the Wireless Life Sciences Alliance, which works with the wireless and health industries to enable new business models, new businesses and clinical process improvements in health-care sectors. A member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Digital Health, he sits on the boards of the Alliance Healthcare Foundation and the American Telemedicine Association. Jones was a founding board member of the West Wireless Health Institute, the first institute focused on the clinical efficacy and economic efficiencies of wireless technologies in health care. Jones has been called one of San Diego's "Top Influentials" by The Daily Transcript and one of the "10 Disruptive Forces in Health IT" by Fierce Health IT. In early 2010, Jones was named to the Consumer Products Innovations Board at Sanofi. Jones holds multiple issued and pending patents in the use of cell phones in incentive reward programs and in asynchronous media communications. He received a bachelor's degree in biology and bio-engineering from the University of California, San Diego; a J.D. from the University of San Diego; and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Irvine.
Global Conference 2013
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, philanthropist Bill Gates and Strive Masiyiwa of Econet Wireless discuss advancing prosperity in Africa.