Ron Jones (born 1948) is a British businessman and executive chair of

Tinopolis The Tinopolis Group is an international TV production and distribution group with businesses based in the UK and US. It produces over 4,500 hours of television Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving ...

, one of the UK's largest television production companies. Previously a partner in the accounting and consultancy firm

Arthur Andersen Arthur Andersen LLP was an American accounting firm based in Chicago that provided auditing, tax advising, consulting and other professional services to large corporations. By 2001, it had become one of the world's largest multinational corpo ...

. He was a founder of

in 1990 and has led the company since that time. Jones took the company public in 2005 and this led to a rapid expansion by acquisition, including a hostile takeover of the largest listed production company at that time, The Television Corporation PLC. In 2008 Jones and his management team bought the company back in partnership with

Vitruvian Partners Vitruvian Partners is a global private equity firm, focusing on growth buyout and growth capital investments in middle-market companies. Vitruvian invests throughout Europe, the U.S. and Asia. The firm has offices in London, Munich, Stockholm, ...

, a

private equity Private equity (PE) is stock in a private company that does not offer stock to the general public; instead it is offered to specialized investment funds and limited partnerships that take an active role in the management and structuring of the co ...

company. Jones is a former member of the Sports Council for Wales (now Sport Wales) and the

Welsh Language Board The Welsh Language Board () was a statutory body set up by HM Government under the Welsh Language Act 1993. It was an Assembly Sponsored Public Body. It began its life under John Walter Jones, and its last chief executive was Meirion Prys Jone ...

. He was treasurer of

Glamorgan County Cricket Club Glamorgan County Cricket Club () is one of eighteen first-class cricket, first-class county cricket, county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the Historic counties of Wales, historic county of Gla ...

for nine years, and is a director and former chairman of Llanelli Scarlets, the leading

rugby union Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...

club.

References

Guardian newspaper profile

Bank of Scotland Entrepreneur Challenge, 2008: Ron Jones

External links

Ron Jones profile at Tinopolis
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