Rikki O'Reilly Jones is a Senior Advisor in the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Office of Investment and Innovation, working at the intersection of technology transition, federal procurement, and private capital. She represents SBA on the National Science and Technology Council’s Critical Minerals Subcommittee, DOE’s Defense Production Act Nuclear Energy Consortium, and interagency Policy Coordination Committee efforts on AI exports.
Rikki entered federal service at SBA as a Presidential Management Fellow and has spent more than a decade in roles spanning SBIR/STTR, commercialization, investment, and international trade and finance. She previously served in OII as an Investment Officer working on the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program and in leadership roles supporting SBA’s innovation programs. Her work focuses on connecting federal R&D and acquisition opportunities with private capital to accelerate technology transition and strengthen U.S. industrial capacity.