Knoxify

My name is Ryan Jones

Guest Blog­ger for Knoxify.com

Thanks to Bran­don and Casey for the opportunity.

I lit­tle insight about me.

What is your name and age?

Ryan Jones with 28 years of age.

Years in Knoxville? What part of town do you live in?

28 years sur­viv­ing Knoxville. I cur­rently have just moved from the Rocky Hill area to Bluegrass.

Where do you work?

I am a boat sales manager/wakeboard proshop owner/ busi­ness planner/marketing manager/ event manager/ and a cou­ple other things at Amer­i­can Boat Cen­ter in west Knoxville. Fam­ily owned and oper­ated Since 1987.

What will you be blog­ging about?

My blogs will cover the areas of action sports (wake­board­ing, skate, snow­board­ing, etc) and the busi­ness that sur­rounds it. I will also have sev­eral blogs about being a young busi­ness oper­a­tor in town, as well as the unique peo­ple and events in Knoxville.

Tell us more about your background…

Well, I was born and raised here in Knoxville. I attended Far­ragut high school in west Knoxville. I went on to receive a degree in busi­ness and psy­chol­ogy from the Uni­ver­sity of Tennessee.

I cur­rently am mar­ried to my wife Ash­ley (hail­ing from Mem­phis) and we have a 4 month old son Jack Malone.

I am pas­sion­ate about Knoxville. I chose to con­tinue my life here after col­lege and am very pleased with my deci­sion. I was excited to have an out­let to write about the things that Knoxville does not get to hear about on a daily basis, but many of us in the com­mu­nity are involved in.

What other inter­ests do you have?

Wake­board­ing has always been apart of my life since the early 90’s. Besides wake­board­ing, music is a giant part of my life as a “wanna — be” drum­mer and gen­eral music fan. Local busi­ness also inter­est me to what makes peo­ple come to Knoxville for busi­ness and how small busi­ness is such a huge part of our local econ­omy. On the whole, unity of the younger gen­er­a­tion to make a dif­fer­ence for the future.

How can you be reached?

Email is the eas­i­est, abcryan@tds.net
or just drive around shout­ing out your win­dow until you find me.