Joaneane Smith-Jones

Headshot of Joaneane A. Smith, LSU Foundation National Board Member.

Joaneane Smith-Jones is the president and CEO of Global Commerce and Services, LLC (GCS). She has more than 25 years of experience in management consulting and information technology. She has traveled across the country implementing PeopleSoft for some of the country’s largest corporations including Smurfit-Stone Container and University of Rochester to integrate technology solutions and services, as well as small and medium-sized businesses. There, Smith-Jones received the Top Achiever for Outstanding Performance and Achievements, Excellence Team Award, as well as the Star Performer Award. 

Smith-Jones is a motivated, persistent, and passionate small business owner who ensures she has the best and the brightest on her management team. As a trailblazer for those aspiring to enter the technology field, she has consistently led GCS to be an award-winning technology company, delivering solutions and services to federal government agencies such as the U.S. Navy, Army, and Air Force, USDA, DISA, NASA, and DHS. Under her leadership and tutelage, her team makes significant impacts for their clients. 

Previous honors include being selected as a commencement speaker for Southern University at New Orleans and as a keynote speaker at Louisiana State University’s Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities. Smith-Jones also participated in a Washington D.C. Senate hearing regarding the government furlough. 

She remains a consistent supporter for and participates in several community service organizations with missions aimed at nurturing science, technology, engineering, and math fields in children and young adults. Smith-Jones volunteers during STEM NOLA’s STEM FEST, CyberNOLA, as well as the University of New Orleans’ annual Information Literacy Roundtable Discussion. Other community service involvements include National Association of University Women, National Council of Negro Women, Adopt-A-Family for Christmas, volunteering with community housing shelters, assisting Habitat for Humanity in home repair, delivering food to Second Harvest Food Bank, reading to the kindergarten class at St. Mary’s Academy, and providing scholarships to several organizations.