Michael Jones has been a resident of McKinney since 2004. In 2012, Michael and his wife built their first home in McKinney and have lived here ever since.
About
He received his Bachelor of Business Administration Degree in Finance in 2005 from the University of North Texas. Michael also received his Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Dallas in 2014.
Michael started his career at GE Capital as an auditor where he traveled the U.S. auditing various businesses that conducted business with GE. There he obtained real world experience in evaluating corporate financial statements and looking for discrepancies. From there he moved into Portfolio Management where he managed a GE Wholesale Finance portfolio of over $150MM before moving on to sales. Michael used his sales training to develop relationships across the U.S. Working with people of diverse backgrounds, he understands different viewpoints and is willing to work with others to better the community. Throughout his time at GE, Michael received extensive training in customer service, leadership, management, and budgeting. He is also Six Sigma Lean Certified, which will help him greatly in identifying opportunities to improve outdated processes and curb wasteful spending.
Currently, Michael is the Commercial Banking Director for b1Bank where he leads a team of commercial lenders and portfolio managers. He works with a variety of businesses, providing them the necessary funding and treasury management to aid them in a successful future. Michael is committed to helping businesses small and large with their operational needs.
While working for the bank he also served on the McKinney Economic Development Corporation Board as Chairman. He is the first African American chairman of the board. During his tenure on the board, he has served on the McKinney Development Committee which focuses on developing processes that makes it easier for people to do business in McKinney, Kiwanis Club of McKinney, Junior Achievement of Greater Dallas, and Homes4Heroes. He is also a graduate of Leadership McKinney, class of 2018, which provides leadership training and an awareness of the McKinney community. Michael was recently appointed as one of the first board members of One Heart McKinney, a charity organization that was created to coordinate the WHOLE community to maximize well-being in daily life, and respond to and recover from community crisis.