Board of Directors - Donovan Jones

President, Chief Executive Officer and Director


Donovan Jones As President and CEO of CounterPath, Donovan Jones is responsible for all corporate and operational initiatives including the development and execution of the Company's corporate strategy.

Donovan's leadership has been instrumental in establishing CounterPath as a technologically innovative and high-growth company with a strong corporate culture. He joined CounterPath in 2005 and served as VP Marketing and Business Development for one year before his appointment to President and Chief Operating Officer (COO). In this role, Donovan and led the integration of three acquired companies, expanding CounterPath's products and solutions portfolio to serve the growing Fixed Mobile Convergence market needs and growing the CounterPath team from 25 to more than 100 employees worldwide. Donovan has also been a driving force in growing the company's global customer base to over 280 Service Providers and Enterprise vendors including: AT&T, BT (British Telecommunications), Deutsche Telekom, Verizon, Cisco and Nortel.

Prior to CounterPath, Donovan worked in the investment banking industry and at TELUS, Canada's second largest telecommunications company with over $7B in revenue. During his time with TELUS, Donovan held increasingly senior positions in Corporate Development and Client Solutions which had him involved in planning and executing a series of merger, acquisition and divestiture activities in the Telecommunications, Application Development and Data Network Integration space. He also was responsible for a $200M business unit focused on selling, implementing and managing enterprise voice, data and IP infrastructure.

In January of 2007, Donovan was awarded a regional top 40 under 40 award recognizing British Columbia's "brightest young business stars" under the age of 40. Donovan holds an MBA from the University of Calgary and an Economics degree from the University of Alberta.