Michelle Jones | Treasurer
Disney
Winter Park, Orange County
Offering over 3 decades of global experience and leadership, Michelle Jones is passionate about overcoming challenges, being an influential agent for positive change, and putting people first. Her unique multidisciplinary background spans accounting, auditing, finance, banking, hospitality, technology, project management, adult education, and communications. With her broad experience, Michelle is a deeply valued executive known for providing vision, innovation, and leadership across diverse teams to develop and optimize people, processes, and technology – and drive results.
Sought for her strategic acumen, global mindset, positive outlook and resiliency, Michelle’s experience includes decades of leadership roles on high-profile initiatives for both KPMG and The Walt Disney Company.
Beginning her career with KPMG U.S., Michelle advanced from her initial role as an auditor of retail and gaming sector companies in the north-east of the US to culminate as Partner with KPMG Deutsche Treuhand Gesellschaft in Frankfurt, Germany, where she helped lead one of the firm’s largest banking clients to a successful listing on the NYSE. Michelle was the youngest female to make partner with KPMG DTG and was among only 10% of female Partners in KPMG International.
Valued as an agent of action and champion for change, Michelle lives and manages from the philosophy that “adversity brings strength”. After some personal setbacks in 2002, Michelle left Europe and returned to the U.S. to the place where “Dreams Come True” and joined The Walt Disney Company’s International Segment Financial Reporting team in 2005. Wanting to put her consulting talents to use, she was invited to join Disney’s Financial Systems team, and now supports internal Disney accounting & finance clients across the company. For the past 18 years, Michelle has helped make magic through various roles on projects to “re-imagine” people, processes and technology for theme parks, news operations, and enterprise systems implementations around the globe – as well as help launch new cruise ships, open a new resort in Hawaii, and over 6+ years, develop and open Disney’s newest resort in Shanghai, China.
In 2007, she met her true “Mr. Incredible” and married him in 2016, after an extended, long-distance engagement while Michelle was in China. Together they have built a home and life in Winter Park, Florida, are supporters of several charitable and volunteer organizations, and are dedicated to making the world a better place for their nieces, nephew, Godchildren and dog, Calvin.
