

Dan Jones
Dan Jones is the vice president of product at global public cloud company Skytap. With more than 20 years of product management experience, he is responsible for leading product strategy, product management, user experience and technical documentation and learning. Dan joined Skytap in 2015 as director of product management, focusing on helping customers modernize traditional applications to leverage cloud architectures and technologies.
Before Skytap, Dan was the director of program management for Nordstrom, where he led the enterprise information team responsible for the business intelligence, analytics, master data management and data warehousing needs for all of Nordstrom. Dan also spent nearly 10 years at Microsoft in a number of roles, most recently as as the principal program manager for Xbox Live.
Dan received a bachelor’s of science degree in business administration from California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo, and holds an MBA from Santa Clara University.
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