Jeffrey A. Jones

Current Role: Managing Director of Stephens Inc.
Trustee Since: 2020
WSR Board Committees: Audit (Chair), Compensation

Other Current Boards and Affiliations:

• Advisory Board of the Alternative Asset Center at the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University

Other Experience and Education:

• President and Partner of Blackhill Partners
• Chief Restructuring Officer of Black Elk Energy
• Former Director, Falcon Steel
• Former Director, Greatwide Logistics Services
• Former Director, First Family Group
• Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
• Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP)
• Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and Finance, Southern Methodist University
• FINRA Series 7, 63 and 79 licenses, all current

Key Experience and Trustee Background

• Jeffrey Jones has over 35 years of experience as an investment banker and restructuring advisor, in addition to holding various director positions at both public and private companies.
• Mr. Jones provides the Board of Trustees with extensive financial advisory expertise, as he has spent his multi-decade career advising healthy and distressed companies, creditors, and shareholders both within real estate across other industries. He is qualified as an expert in sale process, valuation and interest rates in U.S. Bankruptcy courts in the Northeast, including Delaware, the Midwest and the Southern U.S.
• Mr. Jones has been a member of the Board of Trustees since 2020. He currently serves as the Chair of the Audit Committee and as a member of the Compensation Committee.

Mr. Jones is a Managing Director at Stephens Inc., one of the largest independent investment banks in the U.S. He co-headed Blackhill Partners, an investment banking and restructuring firm, from 2011 through the firm’s acquisition from its founder and its subsequent sale to Stevens in 2018. Mr. Jones also served as the Chief Restructuring Officer for Black Elk Energy from 2015-2016 during their complex bankruptcy and the largest ever attempted offshore oil and gas well decommissioning plan in Chapter 11. Noteworthy transactions in Mr. Jones’s career include the $5 billion multinational, multi-jurisdictional reorganization of Pacific Exploration, advising the founding family in the sale of Algan to BFGoodrich, advising the founder of TriColor Auto Group in its sale to Serent Capital, and facilitating the divestitures of non-core business units for British Petroleum, Kennametal and Xerox. Mr. Jones is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP) and completed the three-year Securities Industry Institute program at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Jones earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting and Finance from Southern Methodist University.