Jon Albert
Jack & Jill Late Stage Cancer Foundation was inspired by Jill and Jon Albert’s real life story. With an M.B.A. and years of executive experience in the corporate world, Jon found himself, his wife, Jill, and their two young children Jake and Jamie facing Jill’s Stage IV metastatic breast cancer. Jill and Jon realized early on in Jill’s fight the disease was not just attacking her body, but it was affecting their entire family. Jill and Jon decided they needed to treat their family along with the cancer. Jon took his marketing and operations background and combined it with their drive to formulate something positive and tangible out of the unfair and cruel. The Alberts knew that for their kids, Jamie and Jake, strong memories of special times together would be their greatest inheritance. From this notion, the Jack & Jill Late Stage Cancer Foundation was born.
A graduate of Vanderbilt University and the University of Florida where he achieved his master’s in business, Jon spent a number of years with Frito-Lay. Jon moved to Atlanta in 1989 to establish and launch the GA operations for PageNet which grew into a wonderful success story. He then had the unique opportunity to serve as a Director for The Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG—-a $1.8 billion start-up). In 1996 after The Olympics, Jon became President of the Builder Division of Apex Supply. Jon was actively involved in the sale of Apex Supply to The Home Depot years later.
When not dedicated to this labor of love Foundation which Jon says is exceptionally rewarding professionally and personally, Jon’s primary extracurricular is coaching youth sports—another passion he has done for over 25 years.
