Professional Leadership

CURRENT

Independent Thinker, Researcher and Advisor

J. Christopher CCV LLC
Portland, Oregon

Senior Advisor

Litmus7 Technologies
Kochi, Kerala, India

Contract Advisor

DECA Impact
Tucson, Arizona

Advisor

Momenthesis
Rotterdam, Netherlands

Advisory Board

WarriorFunds
Minneapolis, Minnesota

PREVIOUS

National Sales Manager

Pendleton Woolen Mills
Womenswear Division
Portland, Oregon 

1994-2000

A leading U.S. brand of better women’s sportswear.  Responsible for revenue of all five Womenswear lines to more than 2400 accounts U.S., Japan, Canada, including major department stores, specialty chains, catalog houses, and the first internet retail brands.  Direct management of >30 field sales representatives and internal operations staff.

Retail and Consumer Products Global Industry Sales and Marketing Manager

Intel Corporation
Santa Clara, California

2000-2006

World’s leading manufacturer of CPU’s and associated technologies.  Created, developed Intel’s first vertical industry business development outreach to the global retail and consumer products industry.  Noteworthy achievements:  co-creator, governance board of the METRO Group Future Store; co-creator, governance of the GS1 Hong Kong Digital Supply Chain Initiative, which piloted the first RFID-enabled track-and-trace from China to Bentonville; led Intel to be named IT vendor of the year by the Procter & Gamble Corporation. Engagements in the U.S., throughout Europe, India, and China.

Retail and Consumer Products Industry Director/Consultant

Internet Business Solutions Group 

North American Director and Lead

Cisco Consulting

Cisco Systems
Santa Clara, California

2007-2014

World’s leading designer of enterprise networking technology.   Responsible for development, provision of advisory services to Tier 1 retail and CPG clients in the U.S. and India, including Best Buy, Lowe’s. Kohl’s, Future Group, and Reliance Industries Retail.  

Retail, Hospitality, Consumer Products Global Sales Director

Intel Corporation
Santa Clara, California

2014-2018

World’s leading manufacturer of CPU’s and associated technologies.  Recruited back to Intel to re-build the company’s retail-hospitality-CPG sales expertise and CXO engagement.   Noteworthy engagements in the U.S., Europe, China, and Mexico; led Intel to be named IT Innovation Partner of the Year by the Target Corporation.

Executive Director

The Open Voice Network
Linux Foundation
San Francisco, California

2019-2023

Conversational artificial intelligence (NLP-NLU-NLG, and Generative AI.)  A Linux Foundation open-source community dedicated to the development of technical standards for conversational AI interoperability and data privacy, and ethical use guidelines for this rapidly evolving world.  Built from an initial vision developed with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Auto-ID Lab and Capgemini Consulting, which grew to a chartered community of more than 1000 active participants across 11 nations.  Noted achievements: adoption of draft Open Voice Network technical standards for interoperability by the Information Systems Authority of the Republic of Estonia; publication of the first Linux Foundation educational course on the ethical issues of conversational AI.  Financial sponsorship by such firms as Target Corporation, Schwarz Gruppe, Microsoft, Deutsche Telecom, Wegmans Food Markets, and Veritone.  In October, 2023, the community and its active projects were transferred to the Linux AI & Data Foundation. 

https://openvoicenetwork.org

Education

Degrees

  • B.A., Journalism

    Bloomington, Indiana
    Minors: English, Classic
    Phi Beta Kappa

  • M.S., Telecommunication

    Eugene, Oregon

Teaching & Lecturing

  • Eugene, Oregon

  • Forest Grove, Oregon

  • Portland, Oregon

  • Newberg, Oregon

  • Portland, Oregon

  • Bloomington, Indiana

Personal History

Born in Fresno, California, Jon grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana.  His mother was an educator; his father, one of the original chief Information officers.  (A holiday wreath in Jon’s home was once created out of IBM punch cards, spray-painted gold.)  He and his wife Lisa moved to the West Coast for Jon’s pursuit of a graduate degree, driving a U-Haul truck cross-country. 

Interesting fact: Jon paid for his Indiana University tuition as a part-time staffer in the University’s sports information (communications and PR) office. There he worked for Hall of Fame Sports Information Director Tom Miller, and had first-hand interactions with Hall of Fame coaches Bobby Knight (basketball), Lee Corso (football, and later, ESPN fame), Sam Bell (track and field), and Jerry Yeagley (soccer.)  Jon and Lisa met in the press box of Indiana’s football stadium.   In Oregon, Jon and Lisa worked as statisticians for UO athletics (football, basketball, and track and field) in Oregon’s pre-Nike days, and today count themselves as loyal Ducks.