Youth Café Speaker - Dr. Frankie T. Jones
Posted July 5, 2011 at 11:00 AM
Dr. Frankie T. Jones, Sr. will speak at the 2011 Youth Café. Dr. Jones is President & CEO of Phoenix One Enterprise, Inc. and serves as Senior Pastor of the 114 year old historic Beulah Baptist Church located in Danville, Virgina. As CEO of Phoenix One Enterprise, Inc. he is responsible for the firm's operations, which also serves as a strategic advisor for commercial enterprise initiatives. He also serves as an Executive Fellow with ProSidian Consulting Inc. Dr. Jones is actively engaged in providing consultation to corporations on social responsibility and target marketing and advertising issues. His counsel on multicultural advertising and external communication strategies has proven invaluable to corporate clients resulting in many of their strategies becoming benchmarks for the industry.A native of North Carolina, Dr. Jones holds a Bachelor of Science Degree, two Master Degrees and a Doctorate Degree and is currently pursuing a PhD at the Oxford Graduate School. His studies were completed at North Carolina A&T State University, Wayne State University, Duke University, Shaw University and Virginia University-Lynchburg. He recently completed the Advanced Director’s Finance Program at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.
Dr. Jones is a retired United States Air Force Senior Officer with 20 years of service and 18 years of experience in corporate management. He has extensive experience in plans, programs, logistics, operations, human resources management, public relations and communications. As a military officer, Colonel Jones is a highly decorated commander and graduate of numerous military leadership and management schools. Highlights of his military assignments include serving as commander of 436th Headquarters Support Squadron, Dover AFB. He also served as commander of the 3400th Technical Training Group, Keesler AFB the largest and most diversified technical training group in the United States Air Force where he was responsible for the training of 11,000 Air Force personnel annually. His duties included a special assignment as Executive Officer of the 76th Airlift Division, Andrews AFB, which has responsibility for Air Force One and US Presidential Airlift Support.
As Pastor of Beulah Missionary Baptist Church, he has successfully introduced a number of major initiatives and innovative outreach ministries. Dr. Jones serves on a myriad of corporate, academic and community boards. Jones and his wife, Alease, who teaches in the NC Public School System, reside on their farm in Alamance County and have two sons, Frankie, Jr. and Anthony who are both lawyers.