Matt Jones, executive director of technology platforms, oversees the Connected Vehicle Software, Research & Advanced Engineering, Global Technology Strategy, and Technology Platform Program Management teams. His responsibilities include delivery, development, research and planning activities in digital software and systems, electrification, automated systems, robotics, sustainability, materials and manufacturing. He reports to Doug Field, chief EV, digital and design officer.

Prior to joining Ford, Jones led the delivery of safety-critical connected intelligent systems as Wind River’s corporate vice president of global engineering, accelerating the digital transformation across verticals from aerospace to industrial, defense to medical, and networking to automotive. 

Jones also serves on the AUTOSAR executive board and as the president of COVESA, the alliance previously known as the GENIVI. COVESA brings together like-minded organizations from around the globe with the shared goal of developing open standards and innovative technologies for connected vehicle systems, including in-vehicle, on-edge and in-cloud services, interfaces and data exchange.

Jones was previously at Virgin Hyperloop One. As senior vice president he led the software and embedded hardware engineering teams, tasked with providing all the systems needed to manage, control, and operate an autonomous hyperloop system. This included embedded software and electronics, networking, cloud data and services, as well as customer-facing applications. Prior to Virgin Hyperloop One, he was chief product officer at moovel Group, Daimler’s mobility solutions company. Before moovel, he was director of future technology at Jaguar Land Rover. 

Jones holds a Master of Engineering degree in electronics and electrical engineering from the University of Birmingham in England. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a Chartered Engineer within the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET).