Rye Barcott

Rye Barcott is a managing partner and co-founder of Double Time Capital, an investment firm focused on cleaner energy. He worked previously at Duke Energy as special advisor to the former Chairman and CEO and led an investment team focused on new growth opportunities in cleaner energy. Earlier in his career, he served in the United States Marine Corps and co-founded the non-governmental organization Carolina For Kibera. He wrote a book for students about these two forms of service titled It Happened on the Way to War. Reader’s Digest named the book a top non-fiction title of the year, and it has been adopted in reading programs in high schools and colleges internationally. He received a doctorate of humane letters from Dartmouth College, and is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill and Harvard’s Business and Kennedy Schools. Barcott served previously on the boards of World Learning and J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. He currently serves on the boards of Carolina For Kibera, the National Democratic Institute, the Environmental Defense Fund – Southeast, and the Harvard Alumni Association.