Dr. Gordon Jones is a co-founder of Validide, a privacy protection technology for safeguarding your personal information. He’s a former health executive turned techie who started leveraging the capabilities of blockchain to boost digital health innovation. He goes by the mantra, “As I Teach, I Learn.” As a faculty member at the University of South Carolina and founder of the Createyourself community, he provides practicable ideas to help individuals live their best life. Dr. Jones and his wife founded ApparoAcademy.org preschool for medically fragile children and are adoptive parents of five special needs children. Additionally, he spent six years in the military, serving two tours with the 82nd Airborne Division.