Colette M. Jones is the Vice President of Marketing for Positively Cleveland, Cleveland’s Convention and Visitors Bureau. In this role, she is responsible for promoting Cleveland as a visitor destination regionally and nationally. She oversees advertising, online/interactive media, visitor publications and public relations/communications. Prior to this role, Jones gained more than twelve years of combined brand management/sales experience as an independent brand strategy consultant and working for companies such as KeyBank, N.A., ConAgra Foods, Inc. and the Wm. Wrigley Jr., Co. She is an active member of the Rotary Club of Cleveland, sits on the Historic Gateway Board and on the Advisory Board for Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s Campus International School. Jones is an alumna of the Cleveland Bridge Builders Class of 2011 and was honored to be selected for Crain’s Cleveland Business’ 40 Under 40 2012 class, Kaleidoscope’s 40/40 2012 Class, and as a 2013 Distinguished Marketing and Sales Award Recipient. Jones holds an MBA in Marketing from The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business and a bachelor’s degree from Miami University.
