Edward Randolph "Randy" Jayne II (born 1944) is an American retired government official, business executive, military officer, and combat pilot.

Prior to his business career, Jayne spent over ten years on active duty in the United States Air Force, including two tours as a fighter pilot in Southeast Asia.

His father was a lawyer and World War II naval officer combat veteran, and his mother was a schoolteacher and later an elected school board member and president in Kirksville.

[3] Randy Jayne graduated from Kirksville High School in May 1962 and entered the United States Air Force Academy in June of that year.

His doctoral thesis, published by the Center for International Studies and supervised by William W. Kaufmann, is titled "The ABM Debate: Strategic Defense and National Security," [6] after he completed his PhD, he served a series of operational flying and Washington D.C., special staff tours.

During Jayne’s over ten years as an active air officer, he had a number of operational flying assignments, and special staff duty in the White House.

[7] Other key military assignments during this time included two tours in the Executive Office of the President of the United States and service as a USAF jet instructor pilot at Moody Air Force Base.

In the White House, Jayne served first as a White House Fellow in 1973–1974 during the Nixon Administration,[8] and later, in 1976 and 1977, as a staff member of the National Security Council during the Ford Administration, working for and as a staff member of the United States National Security Council[9] working for General Brent Scowcroft, and serving alongside other young professional staffers such as Robert Gates, Stephen Hadley and Robert Kimmitt.

[4] He also played key roles in St Louis and the Pentagon in the National Guard’s massive civil response to the Midwestern Floods of 1993–1994 and the nationwide call-up and deployment of ANG forces to Desert Shield/Desert Storm.

Prior to joining Heidrick & Struggles, Jayne occupied leadership positions in three public companies, including two Fortune 100 aerospace and defense firms.

[15] During this three-year assignment, Jayne participated in a number of major national security decisions, including full-scale development and initial production for the F-16, F-18, F-117 Stealth Fighter, AWACS, the Tomahawk Cruise Missile, M1A1 Abrams tank, and NASA’s Space Shuttle.

As a key member of the GD executive team, he was involved in the acquisitions of Cessna Aircraft and Chrysler Defense, and the initiation of major programs such as the F-16C, the Advanced Cruise Missile, Tomahawk, the M1A2 Abrams tank, and the SSN-21 attack submarine.

[22] In 2009, Jayne was elected to the board of directors of the White House Fellows Association and Foundation, and served a six-year term, leaving in November 2015.