Prior
to co-founding Sage Capital in 2004, Mr. Jones worked for over twenty years
in the investment banking industry on Wall Street. He began his career in 1980 as an
associate in the mergers & acquisitions department of Goldman Sachs. He joined
First Boston in 1982, where he became a managing director and
head of the firm's product development group. In 1991, he moved to The Blackstone
Group as a managing director in the mergers & acquisitions group and in
1993 he became a senior managing director in the investment banking department
of Bear Stearns & Co. Inc., before re-joining Credit Suisse First Boston
in 1999. After returning to Saint Louis, Mr. Jones served as an adjunct professor
of finance at the Olin School of Business at Washington University from 2002
to 2005.
Mr. Jones is a graduate of University of Pennsylvania Law School
(JD 1980, law review) and Amherst College (BA 1977, summa cum laude). He currently
serves on the boards of Store Supply Warehouse LLC, Randall Manufacturing LLC,
Janet McAfee Inc. and the City of Ladue Non-Uniformed Employees Pension Plan.
Previously he served as vice-chairman of Mary Institute and Country Day School,
endowment trustee of the Church of St. Michael and St. George and as an officer
and director of The Everybody Wins Foundation, a literacy program for at-risk
children.
Mr. Jones is married to Nancy Ylvisaker and has two children.