JahiJones.

Founder and CEO of NavFi. Executive Director of HBCU Wrestling. Director of Agentic AI at Mansa.

I grew up in Fort Washington, Maryland, just outside D.C., and I wrestled at Oxon Hill High School.

I went to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship and walked on to the wrestling team. I became team captain and an NCAA qualifier, received the 2019 Big Ten Medal of Honor, and left with three degrees from the Robert H. Smith School of Business: accounting, supply chain management, and a Master of Science in Business Analytics. After graduating I worked as a project manager at KPMG while I earned the master’s. My capstone was a COVID mask detector running Edge AI on a Google Coral Dev Board. It’s the same work I do now with agents: put AI on a real problem and make it run.

In 2020, after watching the video of George Floyd’s killing, I started looking for ways to help young Black men. Wrestling was what I knew. Black men were winning national titles but made up fewer than one in ten Division I wrestlers.

“None of the HBCUs had opportunities for Division I wrestling.”
Me, to Sports Illustrated Associated Press NPR, 2026

So in 2021 I helped found HBCU Wrestling. Building it taught me to raise money, run an organization and put people around a mission. I took that into NavFi and into my work as Director of Agentic AI at Mansa, a microdrama studio.

3 degrees.

University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business.

B.S. Accounting B.S. Supply Chain Management M.S. Business Analytics

I was the master’s student speaker at Smith’s virtual winter 2021 commencement, and I was inducted into the Maryland Medallion Society.

Maryland

Walk-on to captain.

I came to Maryland on an academic scholarship, walked on to the wrestling team, and became team captain.

Academic All-Big Ten (2018-19) Incentive Awards Program scholar Accounting teaching scholar

2019

Big Ten Medal of Honor.

The first wrestler in Maryland history to receive it.

First awarded in 1915, it’s the oldest award in college athletics to honor both academics and athletics, and widely called the most prestigious honor a Big Ten student-athlete can receive. It goes to one man and one woman in each school’s graduating class. I was Maryland’s male recipient.

KPMG

Project manager at a Big Four firm.

After graduating, I joined KPMG as a project manager while I earned my master’s and wrestled my final season.

2020

NCAA qualifier.

Starter at 157 pounds, with an at-large bid to the NCAA Championships.

2021

I co-founded HBCU Wrestling.

That October, Morgan State announced the return of Division I wrestling, in partnership with us.

2023

Morgan State wrestles in Division I.

The only HBCU with Division I wrestling, back for the first time since 1997.

2026

Delaware State women make history.

The first HBCU Division I women’s wrestling program, competing at the first NCAA women’s wrestling championship.

Now

Founder, coach, builder.

I run NavFi, and I’m Director of Agentic AI at Mansa, a studio making short vertical series. I also coach high school boys wrestling at The St. James.

NavFi

I founded NavFi and run it as CEO. It’s the world’s first financial GPS: it shows you where your money is, where you want it to be, and the route to get there.

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Jahi Jones courtside at an arena, smiling — Photo: Justin Hoch

$6M

As Executive Director of HBCU Wrestling, I helped raise about $6 million over five years. $4.5 million has been released to universities.

That money built Division I wrestling at Morgan State and Delaware State, with 19 scholarships a year.

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Agents run my back office.

I’m an AI engineer. I build and run the multi-agent workflows that handle deadlines, email, content, books and reporting across my companies. A person approves anything that goes out.

I invent things.

I have patent applications filed.

The work, in the news.

NPR CBS News NBC News Andscape FOX 5 DC USA Wrestling NCAA.com

Each name opens the story. The Associated Press link opens a reprint. AP reports also ran in NBC News, Andscape, CBS News and others.