Jon handles CEO and CPO duties at KOYA leveraging over 19 years of building mobile apps based on location awareness.
Jon served as a Senior Director for the Digital Sports team at adidas working with strategic partners, external 3rd party developers, future mobile and wearable experiences and was always searching for the next big thing at the intersection of sport and technology. Prior to Digital Sports, Jon served as an Innovation Explorer for the Future team focused on bringing digital experiences to life.
Before adidas, Jon founded Bones in Motion, a mobile software start-up in 2003 that pioneered using GPS in mobile phones to deliver real-time fitness experiences that was acquired by adidas in 2009 and became the foundation for adidas’ miCoach mobile. He has also worked at several start-ups in consumer electronics, enterprise hardware and software, and DoD software development. His work as a software architect for IBM brought his family to Austin, TX where he still resides.
Jon earned a BSCS from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette in 1985. He holds 50+ patents covering user interface design, speech recognition, networking, mobile fitness-related software and hardware, and other fun stuff.
