Jane Lee

Jane Lee has over 20 years of experience spanning industry, both chambers of Congress and the White House, with an established track record of producing results.

​She previously served as the U.S. Senate Majority Leader’s senior adviser on budget, appropriations, and economic policy where she helped steer the successful passage of the bipartisan CARES Act and COVID-19 economic rescue packages, the 2019 Bipartisan Budget Act, 2017’s budget resolutions and reconciliation vehicles for tax reform, and over 50 full year appropriations bills. Jane has also served as a conference whip adviser to the Senate Majority Whip and held senior positions in the Senate, House, and the White House – as a senior policy adviser and subcommittee director on the Senate Appropriations Committee and as policy director and defense analyst at the House Budget Committee. She also held senior roles at the White House Office of Budget and Management as a principal spokesperson on procurement, digital technology and financial management policy, and as a budget examiner for DoD's Defense-Wide programs. Jane was a Jacob Javits Fellow on the Senate Commerce Committee and worked in the private sector in consulting and business development for start-ups.

She mostly recently served as the Chief Government Affairs Officer at Rebellion Defense, where she led federal demand generation campaigns to produce over $300 million for the sales pipeline and business development teams, leading to key multi-million dollar contracts. She also led campaigns to secure legislative and regulatory changes to improve start-up access to public sector markets and advanced reforms to streamline costly and lengthy processes including Authorizations to Operate and Facilities Clearance reviews.

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She is the founder and chair of the board for the Software in Defense Coalition, a non-profit to increase the contributions of American defense emerging tech start-up companies and small businesses to national security missions. She is also the chair of the U.S. Senate Defense Modernization Caucus Alliance and sits on the board of the Women’s Foreign Policy Group, helping to build a new generation of American technology leaders. Jane was named as Washingtonian Magazine’s Most Influential People in Policy for 2022, 2023, and 2024. She is an alumnus of Stanford University and  Columbia University.