Rye Jones

Rye Jones is the Co-founder and CEO of NextStage, a CRM platform designed for government contractors, a position held since August 2019. Prior to this role, Rye served as a Product Manager at Next Insurance, focusing on product launches and market expansion, and as a Growth Product Manager at Dropbox, where significant contributions were made to increase subscription run rates. Additionally, Rye managed a revenue operations team at Multiply, overseeing analytics and partnerships that generated over $100 million in annual revenue. Rye’s academic background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Chinese and Philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis and a Fulbright Research Fellowship at Fudan University, where research focused on contemporary political philosophy in China.