Leadership
Wayne C. Jones
Chairman
NSU Research & Innovation Foundation
Biography
WAYNE C. JONES is currently Chief Executive Member of Black Rock Engineering and Technology Services, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business that helps government agencies and commercial organizations modernize critical infrastructure while ensuring sustained operations, security, and compliance. Black Rock’s technology solutions include cloud transformation, software-defined data centers, operational technology engineering, systems engineering, industrial control system design, CISO-as-a-Service, and supply chain cybersecurity. Black Rock was the first company awarded a 3-year Authority to Operate (ATO) for an industrial control system and is an expert in Zero Trust, NIST 800-171, DFARS 7012, and FedRAMP.
Jones is the former Director of Information Technology Infrastructure and Operations at Old Dominion University and former Assistant Director of Communications Services. At Old Dominion, he served as co-principal investigator for a National Science Foundation–funded research grant project to design and implement a “Science DMZ” environment, and as chief design engineer for a next-generation optical network linking six major research organizations in the Hampton Roads region. He also led the university’s successful initiative to build the first 100 gigabit network link into the Hampton Roads region as part of a statewide research and education network.
As an innovative technology executive, he is known for his responsiveness, exceptional leadership, and strengths in strategic planning, network design, and project management. He has more than 40 years of experience in creating and directing performance-driven teams in public and private sector organizations including federal/military, state, public-private partnerships, and higher education institutions.
Jones is a 20-year Air Force veteran and is a graduate of Saint Leo College with a BA in Information Systems. He received a Master of Business Administration from Golden Gate University in Information Systems. He and his wife, Shirley, live in Yorktown, Virginia, and have two adult children, Tasha and Louverture, and eight grandchildren.