Rye Barcott

Co-Founder and CEO, With Honor

Rye Barcott is co-founder and CEO of With Honor, a national nonprofit and political action committee that fights polarization in Congress by recruiting, electing, and supporting principled veterans who pledge to serve with integrity, civility, and courage across party lines. Together, the 50 Members of Congress With Honor Action supports have passed more than 250 bipartisan laws focused on national security, national service, and veterans affairs.

Previously, Barcott co-founded and led the solar power investment firm Double Time Capital, and co-founded the youth leadership and public health non-profit CFK Africa in the Kibera informal settlement of Nairobi, Kenya. His memoir, It Happened on the Way to War, juxtaposes military service in the U.S. Marine Corps and social entrepreneurship. Dartmouth College awarded him an honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters.

Barcott is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, Harvard Business School, and Harvard Kennedy School, where he was a Center for Public Leadership Fellow. He chairs the Board of CFK Africa and serves on the Advisory Boards of the Institute for Peace, Veterans Bridge Home, and the Global War on Terrorism Memorial Foundation. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with his wife and three children.