Throughout his career, Jones has served as the CEO of Sailing Australia, Athletics Australia and Paddle Australia.

His tenure at Sailing Australia spanned 17 years, and four Olympic and Paralympics Games including Sailing’s best ever Olympic Games in London 2012. Under his leadership, Sailing won seven Olympic gold, two Paralympics gold, three Olympic silver, one Paralympic silver, one Olympic bronze and one Paralympic bronze medal.

Jones took over the CEO role at Athletics Australia ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, where Athletics won one silver and one bronze medal at the Olympics, and three gold, nine silver and 14 bronze at the Paralympic Games. He assumed the helm of Paddle Australia in 2017, going on to lead the organisation through the COVID-19 pandemic and to two Olympic and Paralympic Games. At the Tokyo Games, Paddle Australia bagged two Olympic gold and one bronze, as well as two Paralympic gold and one silver.

It could be no more fitting, for his last Olympic and Paralympic Games as a National Sporting Organisation CEO, that Paddle Australia achieved their best result ever in Olympic and Paralympic history, with three Olympic gold, one silver and one bronze, and three medals in a single day at the Paralympic Games (one gold, one silver, one bronze).

Jones' legacy will be long felt after his retirement in November 2024. As one of the longest-serving sport CEOs in the country, his impact is not only on the sports that he worked for, but also on the people he worked with and employees who worked for him over the many years and roles he has held.