Leadership

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Jean Marie Richardson

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, iFOLIO

Jean Marie Richardson is a native Georgian, a Georgia Tech alumna, and the CEO of iFOLIO. 


Richardson holds 3 patents for web analytics.  She serves on four boards including the Georgia Tech Advisory Board to the President, the Cadence Bank Atlanta Advisory board, the GT Alexander Tharp Athletics Board, and as chairwoman of the iFOLIO Investor Board.  


After working at Oracle and Microsoft and experiencing firsthand the challenges supporting customer teams, Jean Marie founded iFOLIO in 2016 with a mission to make work easier with a friendly platform. Since 2016, Jean Marie has led iFOLIO to 10X growth, helping clients transform digital marketing and sales enablement. 


iFOLIO enables teams to connect, engage, and convert with a marketing cloud and patented analytics.


Today under her leadership, iFOLIO delivers more than two hundred SaaS capabilities and powers over 2,000,000 live sites for clients across industries. Clients include Madison Square Garden, the University of Notre Dame, Clemson Foundation, Georgia Tech Foundation, the Texas Rangers MLB, the MLB league, Cadence Bank, and more. 

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Prior Experience & 3 Patents

Jean Marie worked in product management at Oracle Corporation and Microsoft, learning first hand the challenges supporting sales and marketing.


After 5 years researching and developing, she founded iFOLIO and built the platform with developers. 


Since then Jean Marie Richardson has been awarded 3 patents for web analytics:

  • US 11,630,652 B2 patent in 2023
  • US 17,216,589 B2 patent in 2022
  • US 10,996,933 B2 in 2021 

Leadership

According to Forbes, less than 1% of the founders of tech companies are female. As a female founder, Jean Marie Richardson is passionate about fostering diversity, team culture, and innovation as she grows iFOLIO. 


She gives back to the Atlanta community through service projects, mentoring, and Monday Mentoring through Atlanta Business Chronicle.   She supports women in Tech through scholarships.  She has pioneered the iFOLIO NIL program. 


She serves on 4 boards including the Georgia Tech Advisory Board, the Georgia Tech AT Athletics Board of Advisors, the Cadence Bank Atlanta Advisory Board, and she chairs the iFOLIO Investor Board.

Awards 

Jean Marie Richardson is a global Stevie® Award recipient for Women in Business, including Best Female Entrepreneur Business Products and Best Female Entrepreneur Business Services in 2023.


She has been selected for a Georgia Tech Woman of Impact Award in 2024.


The National Federation of Independent Business awarded Jean Marie the Young Entrepreneur Award and the National Diversity Council awarded her a Woman of Power and Influence Award.


She was awarded the prestigious President's Scholarship at Georgia Institute of Technology, where she graduated with honors.










iFOLIO®

iFOLIO Cloud - a friendly sales enablement & digital marketing platform

www.ifoliocloud.com


Named one of Atlanta’s Most Innovative companies by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, iFOLIO has helped customers generate 300% growth through personalized marketing and millions of dollars of increased sales annually.


iFOLIO® powers awesome customers from Madison Square Garden, to the University of Notre Dame, Northeastern University, Clemson University, Georgia Tech Foundation, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, The MLB, The Texas Rangers MLB, to enterprise teams Cadence Bank, Core Laboratories, Equifax and more.

Speaker

Jean Marie speaks on topics including the intersection of business and analytics, personalizing marketing to grow business,  developing a winning culture, and the mindset of a champion in adversity and giving back. 


She has been a featured speaker at over 20 national conferences, on radio, on television, at Georgia Institute of Technology, at Georgia State University, and on podcasts.  (her speaker iFOLIO)

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iFOLIO News

iFOLIO Core Values

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Team, Service Projects, & Culture

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Atlanta is Home

Jean Marie resides in Atlanta

with her husband Hap

and their pups Harper Lee and Beaux.

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