Serial Entrepreneur Scott A. Jones

An engineer at heart with the spirit of a serial entrepreneur, Scott A. Jones thrives on living beyond the limits of cutting edge technology. The spectrum of his creativity is mirrored in the mosaic of roles he plays: a prolific American inventor, a dynamic serial entrepreneur and a passionate pioneer. One of his most valuable qualities: the foresight to not only envision what the world-at-large perhaps cannot yet see, but to create it.

For more than two decades, Scott has used his strategic foresight to create companies that have produced over a dozen award-winning industry firsts. Billions of people have benefited from his products, services, and inventions around the world. As a young entrepreneur, he revolutionized the modern workplace in the mid-1980s, when at only 26 years old, after forming his first company, Boston Technology, he became a noted voicemail inventor: developing the voicemail system that is now used by nearly all telephone companies around the globe. In the mid-1990s, he created Escient, which he later transformed into Gracenote— one of the first companies to develop music recognition software that is now at the heart of several Internet music products, such as Apple's iPod and iTunes, Yahoo’s and AOL’s music services, and Sony's VAIO computer line. Gracenote has added another tune to its repertoire as one of the first companies to offer legal downloads of millions of song lyrics. This top entrepreneur diversified once more in 2005, founding IndyRobotics, LLC (now known as Precise Path Robotics) and creating Indiana's Robotic Vehicle (IRV), one of the world’s premier self-driving robot vehicles. Leveraging that technology, several new products are in the works, including a robotic lawnmower. But Scott’s latest venture should prove to be his biggest endeavor yet! ChaCha is a radically different human search engine that leverages the power of human intelligence.

Inventor. Serial entrepreneur. Pioneer. Scott Jones has a mind that never stops envisioning the next new technology to simplify our lives.