Alumni

UC Alumni Celebration: Laurence Jones III, Bus ’00, Gallery Reception


Award Celebration + Reception Honoring Laurence Jones 
Saturday, April 22
6 p.m.

Fifth Third Arena - Fifth Third Vault (just inside the East entrance)
2700 O'Varsity Way
Cincinnati, OH 45219

Online registration for this event has closed. If you have any questions, please reach out to Victoria Kuhlman.

Please join us for a private reception and award presentation celebrating Laurence Jones as he receives the Robert E. Dobbs Distinguished Service Award. This memorable evening will take place in a special, curated, pop-up gallery inside Fifth Third Arena, featuring custom portraits of all 18 UC Alumni Celebration honorees for 2023, plus a replica of the new mural in Over-the-Rhine depicting the full group. Dinner-by-the-bite will be provided.

Laurence Jones III, Bus ’00

Robert E. Dobbs Distinguished Service Award

Laurence Jones Headshot

Laurence is Co-Founder and President of RiskVersity, a provider of risk management and insurance services, which started in 2015. He is also President and Co-Founder of CyberSure LLC. and Co-Founder and Partner at Resurgent Collaborative. He is a member of the UCF Board of Trustees and serves as Chair of the UCF Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. Laurence also sits on the UCF Audit Committee, the UCF Executive Committee, and is a UCAA Past President. Additionally, he serves on the Accounting and Business Advisory Boards. Laurence and his wife, Rebecka, have established The Laurence and Rebecka Jones Business Fellows Annual Scholarship Fund. Laurence received the Cincinnati Business Courier’s 40 Under 40 Award in 2011 and has been involved with the Cincinnati USA Partnership Regional Business Retention Committee, the International Economic Development Council, and Ohio Economic Development Association.


Robert E. Dobbs Distinguished Service Award

This award recognizes dedicated alumni who, through their service, make an outstanding contribution to their university are usually over-modest, always unpaid, and unthinking of reward. Nonetheless, recognition is important, for an action that begins by aiding the advancement of a university and ends in the improvements of the social structure in which we live. The UC Alumni Association issues the Robert E. Dobbs Distinguished Service Award to provide that recognition for those who have faithfully rendered outstanding service to the University of Cincinnati.


Make a Gift in Honor of Laurence Jones

To help celebrate this honor, please consider making a gift to The Laurence and Rebecka Jones Business Fellows Annual Scholarship Fund which provides an annual scholarship to a current student within the Carl H. Lindner College of Business-Business Fellows program.


Parking Map

Please see the linked parking map with suggested garages with their entrances marked. Also marked are suggested routes for ADA and rideshare drop-off, as well as accessible walking paths from that drop-off zone to the event space in Fifth Third Arena.

Headshot of Cynthia Miller

Cynthia Miller

Assistant Vice President, Alumni Engagement 

513-556-2078