Wade Jones

Wade Jones

Advisory Council Member

Wade Jones is an innovative, transformational leader and general management executive with international, operational, and P&L experience across a full range of company sizes from working in venture capital backed start-ups, private equity portfolio companies, and blue-chip public companies. Wade has exceptional hands-on experience having used a unique combination of strategic and analytical thinking, creative problem solving, and high emotional intelligence to execute to start, grow, and turn around businesses under challenging circumstances. His core competencies include P&L optimization, leadership and cultural transformation, organizational effectiveness & employee engagement, product strategy, commercial models, go-to-market, integrated marketing, and strategic partnerships and relationship management.

Most recently, Wade served as Executive Vice President of Sabre, a travel technology company, where he held critical roles as President of Sabre Travel Network, a $3 billion business unit with 3,000 team members across 150 countries, and Chief Product Officer of Travel Solutions, a portfolio of technology and SaaS products including an airline passenger servicing system and surrounding products, and the global distribution system, a travel marketplace connecting buyers and sellers of travel. Before Sabre, Wade was part of the start-up team for the first digital bank that scaled to a top ten credit care issuer in the United States. After it was acquired by Barclays, Wade moved to London, where, as managing director, he led the turn-around of the Barclays partnership credit card portfolio.

Wade graduated from Texas Christian University with a degree in finance and has an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.