Jon Thomason

Vice President of Election Technology

"Technology can be a great equalizer. Using it to enable the disenfranchised is our primary goal. Vibrant democracy implies inclusiveness."

Jon is a twenty-year veteran of the software industry. He spent fifteen years at the Microsoft Corporation, where he worked on Windows for ten years on both the kernel and user experience teams. He was among the founders of the Xbox project, being in charge of operating system, the game developer’s kit, and Xbox Live. He co-led the Xbox 360 planning process and as General Manager, ran the Windows User Experience team for Windows Vista.

In 2008, Jon moved his family to the beautiful Carmel Valley neighborhood of San Diego and worked for Sony Computer Entertainment America until joining the Everyone Counts team.

Jon brings with him a depth of experience in software with world impact. He has participated in a dozen major releases and is an expert in shipping software and communicating about it. He considers it a great challenge and an honor to help bring the many benefits of modern security and IT technology to elections everywhere.