Don Jones

Vice President, Business Development, Health & Life Sciences

Donald Jones serves as vice president of business development for health & life sciences at Qualcomm. He is responsible for Qualcomm’s enablement of wireless technologies in the health and life sciences markets, a recognized leader in the field. In 2005, he founded the Wireless Life Sciences Alliance, a 501c(6) trade organization that works with both the wireless and life science industries to enable new business models, new businesses and clinical process improvements in all sectors of the life sciences industry, including consumer health, fitness, healthcare services, healthcare IT, pharmaceutical and medical devices.

He is 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, with Eric Topol, MD and Gary and Mary West, the world first and foremost Institute focused on the clinical efficacy and economic efficiencies of wireless technologies in healthcare. In 2010, the San Diego Transcript named Jones one of ‘San Diego’s Top Influential’s’.

Jones holds a bachelors’ degree in biology and bio-engineering from the University of California, San Diego, a Juris Doctor from the University of San Diego and an MBA from the University of California, Irvine. Jones holds multiple patents in the use of cell phones in incentive reward programs.