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Logan Jones

Logan Jones is the General Manager of SGS, and has over a decade of national security and defense experience in the US and globally, in which he’s worked extensively with the DoD and with commercial defense companies.

Jones is the former vice president and founding member of the largest aerospace venture fund and innovation group, Boeing HorizonX. As senior director of business development, he also led a team at Boeing NeXt, a business division focused on the future of urban, regional and global mobility.  In both roles he forged nontraditional partnerships, cultivated new business opportunities to extend Boeing’s core capabilities into existing and emerging markets, led multiple venture transactions, and launched partnerships with multinational companies and startups to create new businesses.

Additionally, Jones formerly served on the board of Wisk Aero, an urban air mobility company, and was recently chair of the urban air mobility committee at AIA.
 
Jones has a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing from Montana State University and a master’s degree in program management from Boston University. He also holds a master’s degree in business administration from Washington University in St. Louis.

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    ZW3D donates CAD/CAM software licenses to Korean university

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    12 June, 2018 | 1 minute
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    Siemens announces automation partnership with Sartorius Stedim Biotech

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    PTC and Rockwell Automation announce strategic partnership to drive industrial innovation

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