Thomas W. Jones

From 1982 to 1989 Jones served as senior vice president and treasurer of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company.

[5] In 1993, Jones created and endowed The James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial and Intercultural Peace and Harmony to honor the former Cornell University president who launched a successful effort to improve black student recruitment in the 1960s, and resigned Cornell's presidency in June 1969 following the Willard Straight Hall Takeover.

The Perkins Prize is awarded annually to the Cornell program or organization making the most significant contribution to furthering the ideal of university community while respecting the values of racial and cultural diversity.

Thomas Jones is author of From Willard Straight to Wall Street: A Memoir (published by Cornell University Press, 2019), winner of the 2020 Axiom Business Book Bronze Prize in the memoir/biography category.

Jones is cited in the book The 100 Most Notable Cornellians by Glenn C. Altschuler, Isaac Kramnick, and R. Laurence Moore (Cornell University Press, 2003)