ROGER D. JONES

Complexica, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
CommodiCast, Chairman
Assuratech, Chairman

Dr. Jones serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for Complexica and Chairman of CommodiCast and Assuratech. A rare combination of entrepreneur and scientist, Dr. Jones founded Complexica in 1999 with a mission to hatch spin-off companies using complexity science and other advanced data mining techniques that deliver real solutions and a competitive advantage in complex business environments.

Well-known in the advanced computing academic and scientific communities, Dr. Jones earned a Ph.D. in physics from Dartmouth College in 1979 where his early interests included biological physics and the basis of learning, plasma physics and fusion. Dr. Jones joined Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in 1979, working within the Laser Fusion Program at LANL. During his tenure at LANL, he founded the Nonlinear Adaptive Computation effort – which focused on developing software data mining and control systems that had the capacity to learn from data as the systems interacted with the data. He was a member of the Executive Board of the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos where he led the development of projects with a number of industrial and government partners including Du Pont, General Motors, Citicorp,the Department of Transportation, the Department of Defense, Texas Instruments, LAN Research, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Laser Institute of America.

While at the lab, his projects ranged from the development of auto anti-lock braking systems, patented adaptive processes for control of chemical plants and integrated circuit manufacture, laser welding as well as data mining projects that identified and predicted loss rates in credit card portfolios, identified and found objects in satellite imagery and sonar signals, and detected fraud in electronic filing of tax returns.

Dr. Jones has been an active participant in the scientific application of complexity science to an array of hard-to-solve business problems. Following the Latin American debt crisis, leading bankers looked to Los Alamos-based scientists for new ideas in preventing a future crisis, leading to an array of informatics and complexity-based solutions. As a result, Dr. Jones founded the Center for Adaptive Systems Applications (CASA) in 1995, focusing primarily in assisting clients in the financial sector predict and protect against risk.

In April 1999, Complexica signed a strategic partnership agreement with BiosGroup, a joint venture of Ernst and Young’s Center for Business Innovation. In March 2000 Complexica and BiosGroup created CommodiCast, Inc., a complexity-based company that provides commodity price forecasting for hedgers and speculators. In the summer of 2001 Complexica formed Assuratech to commercialize capital flow modeling tools.

Dr. Jones received a Los Alamos Distinguished Performance Award for work associated with development and application of his inventions.

A BiosGroup fellow, Dr. Jones has authored numerous published works including scientific papers in the fields of Classical, Quantum, and Relativistic Plasma Physics; Elementary Particle Physics; Biophysics; Finance; Machine Learning; Automated Adaptive Control; Nuclear Fusion; Banking; and Laser-Matter Interaction including medical applications to angioplasty and lithotripsy of kidney stones and gallstones. He also serves as board member for Santa Fe Economic Development, Inc.