From the 21 Club to Chapter 11 in less than three years: That has been the ironic arc of my relationship with Bill Jones III (above), the chairman and CEO of Sea Island Co. in ...

At Georgia's Sea Island, still an exclusive club, ... the Sea Island Co. has been privately owned by the Jones family and is currently being run by Alfred "Bill" Jones III.

A.W. "Bill" Jones III had an eye for the finer things. After taking over his family's sprawling golf resort on Sea Island, Ga., in 1992, he toured America's top clubs for a sense of what the ...

According to Bill Jones III, the fourth-generation Jones to run Sea Island, it’s business as usual for homeowners, visitors and employees of the upscale resort near Brunswick.

Bill Jones III, the Sea Island Co. scion and CEO, will likely be forced to relinquish control, a stunning development for the family that has run Sea Island since 1926, the people familiar with ...

I'm told Bill Jones III, the chairman and CEO of Sea Island Co., has stood before locals, staff and members four times this year, making relevant announcements and opening up the room to a Q&A.

The plan provides creditors with the "highest possible recoveries," Sarah Borders, a Sea Island lawyer, told Dalis. Bill Jones III, company chief executive and chairman, and David Bansmer, company ...

Georgia’s crown jewel of coastal resorts, the moss-draped playground of presidents and celebrities, has gone bust. The once-vaunted Sea Island Co. is awash in debt, badly behind on its loan ...

He is expected to buy Frederica, the 3,000-acre residential development that was a private portion of the Sea Island Co.'s holdings until owner/CEO Bill Jones III was forced to deed it back to ...

We returned to check out the new Inn at Sea Island (100 Cloister Drive, Sea Island, ... Third-generation owner Bill Jones III aspired to be “number one in everything”—taking on a reported ...

But if The Cloister at Sea Island is famous for anything, ... The hotel’s history began in 1928 when Bill Jones and automobile magnate Howard Coffin envisioned “a friendly little hotel” on ...