John Jones (American Football Executive) - Career Highlights

Career Highlights

  • Elected team's 10th president May 31, 2006, by team's Board of Directors. Responsible for Salary Cap supervision and management of the organization's administrative staff and business operations, including the Lambeau Field Atrium, finance, stadium operations, ticketing, public relations, marketing, community relations and retail.
  • Originally joined the organization February 10, 1999, as senior vice president of administration.
  • Named executive vice president and chief operating officer on October 16, 2001.
  • Continued to lead the organization's solid financial performance in 2006 as the team moved up to seventh place in NFL revenue ranking, its highest ever.
  • Assisted in creating a new local broadcast partnership joining WFRV-TV in Green Bay and WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee with CBS Sports and Viacom to produce Packers' preseason games, create year-round TV programming and promote economic development/tourism at Lambeau Field.
  • Serves as a member on the NFL's Stadium Committee and on the board of directors of NFL Business Ventures.
  • During a 10-year tenure with the NFL Management Council (NFLMC), was a member of the league's negotiating team that forged the NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement and created the salary cap system in 1993.
  • Spearheaded the NFLMC's development of an intranet site on the World Wide Web in 1999 and with it a new electronic contract reporting system used by every club to report player signings by e-mail.
  • Attended graduate journalism school at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, developing early ties to the Packers, leaving school in 1974 to become editor of Ray Nitschke's Packer Report, a position he held through 1975.

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