Reese M. Jones

Reese Matthew Jones (born September 1958) is an inventor and entrepreneur who founded Farallon and co-founded the Berkeley Macintosh Users Group.

Education
Reese earned a B.A. in biophysics from the University of California, Berkeley, where he began work on his Ph.D.

Career
During his graduate studies, Jones co-founded the Berkeley Macintosh Users Group (BMUG) in 1984, soon after the original Macintosh was introduced. He created a low-cost variant of AppleTalk networking hardware to connect BMUG's computers to the of the campus. Initially called "BMUGnet", Reese patented it and developed it into PhoneNET.

In 1985, Reese established Farallon to market hardware developed at Berkeley, such as PhoneNET and MacRecorder. The company was later rebranded as and sold to Motorola for 208 million in February 2007.