Chris K. Jones
Author/former CFO
Chris Jones is a serial entrepreneur turned author with a story as intriguing as the fiction he writes!
From a young age, Chris loved the arts and enjoyed writing scripts for school plays. The desire to write only grew as he became a part of the Gifted and Talented Symposium for the Arts.
However, when it came time to pursue a career, the “practical” side won out, and Chris walked into the business world of accounting and entrepreneurship.
His entrepreneurial roots took hold building several start-ups. From mobile gaming, to outsourcing CFO services, Chris made it through some of the biggest ups and downs of his career. In 2009, he started a company in the construction equipment rental space to compete in the hardest market (NYC) during the middle of the “Great Recession.” Durante Rentals took off with old fashioned grit, determination, and financial savvy. Chris spent his days as the Co-Founder and Chief Financial Officer of a hyper-growth company and then nights writing plays, screenplays, and stories.
At Durante Rentals, Chris was a 3x CFO of the year and his company was a 7x honoree on the Inc 5000 list of fastest growing privately held companies.
As the company grew, even with the money and notoriety, Chris’ passion was writing. In June 2019, Chris led the sale of his company to a Toronto-based private equity firm. The end was in sight, and soon he could focus his time on writing.
On January 31st, 2020, after a thirty-year career in accounting, he put his calculator down and picked up his pen and, to pursue his writing full time. Less than 45 days later, with a pandemic ravaging across the globe, Chris saw this as the perfect opportunity to focus on his writing. Chris spent the next 4 months writing the entire 1st season of Headcase. But after talking to industry people, nothing was being done due to the pandemic. Chris converted Headcase from a TV show to a novel and published the book March 2022.
Now, as he continues to pursue writing full-time, his desire is to share the knowledge he has learned in business and in the topics he covers through his characters and stories.
