Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

RJ Jones is Executive Vice President of Finance & Growth at eXp World Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPI), where he leads corporate & business development, financial planning & analysis, and investor relations.

Prior to joining eXp World Holdings, RJ was VP of Investor and Corporate Relations at Zillow Group. While there he managed relationships with institutional shareholders and regularly presented the Zillow Group story to investor, industry and consumer audiences. He led efforts enabling the Company to raise over $2 billion through public equity and convertible offerings. He possesses extensive M&A experience as he was a key member of 8 deal teams totalling nearly $3 billion in transaction value.

Prior to joining Zillow Group, RJ was chief marketing officer and partner with Kosmos Funds, a Seattle-based alternative investment manager, where he led the capital raising efforts for the initial $100 million startup fund. Previously, he worked as a hybrid buy-side and sell-side investment analyst directing up to $500 million of consumer and retail equities investments for Ragen Mackenzie of Wells Fargo Investments. He also previously ran investor relations for Nordstrom. Prior to that RJ joined the team that created the boutique investment bank, Delafield Hambrecht, where he led the consumer equity research efforts of the firm.

RJ currently serves as a member of the board of directors at RG Fiber, a gigabit service provider to rural U.S. communities; at inAssist, a consumer driven health insurance claims audit provider; and at The Armory Incubator for veteran led startups. RJ is a PIPELINE National Mentor - PIPELINE is an exclusive community of entrepreneurial leaders building high-growth companies in the Midwest, supported with grants from the Kauffman Foundation.

Before embarking on a civilian career, RJ was a Commissioned Officer in the United States Army. His assignments included company commander and platoon leader positions as a qualified airborne ranger and senior parachutist, with two deployments to Haiti for peace enforcement, peacekeeping and humanitarian missions. He holds a bachelor's in Systems Engineering from the United States Military Academy and an MBA from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington.