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Jean Marie Richardson is the Founder and CEO of iFOLIO, the premier All-in-One Digital platform for communications and engagement. Since launching the company in 2016, Jean Marie has driven a remarkable 10X growth trajectory, scaling the platform to power over $4 billion in sales and fundraising transactions globally. Under her vision, iFOLIO has grown to over 6 million sites and pages, achieving a market valuation exceeding $200 million.
A testament to her strategic enterprise leadership, iFOLIO’s technology has successfully deployed across more than 148 enterprise organizations, and enabled clients to generate up to 300% growth.
Those enterprise deployments include 9 sectors:
Beyond top-line expansion, Jean Marie is a disciplined operator. She has guided iFOLIO's platform growth while maintaining a completely debt-free balance sheet.
Jean Marie founded iFOLIO in 2016 after identifying a critical enterprise pain point: the massive loss of productivity and revenue when sales, marketing, communications, and analytics live across multiple platforms. To solve this, she built a high-performance, unified All-in-One Digital platform for communications and digital engagement, all backed by patented analytics.
The platform unites digital marketing, communications, sales enablement, and data analytics in a single collaborative hub that supports enterprises with business unit architecture for scaling services.
As a product pioneer, Jean Marie has secured three U.S. patents for customer engagement analytics, ensuring iFOLIO's innovation remains proprietary and highly defensible.
She continues to future-proof the company, earning SOC 2 Type II certification, and spearheading a cutting-edge product roadmap featuring proprietary analytics, purls, AI Assistants, visual email, and contact360.
Background
Before founding iFOLIO, Jean Marie built an exceptional enterprise career in product, customer acquisition, and P&L operations.
A Presidents Scholar at Georgia Institute of Technology, Jean Marie graduated with honors in 2002.
Board Service & Leadership
Deeply committed to leadership, education, and the tech ecosystem, Jean Marie Richardson serves on the Georgia Tech Advisory Board to the President. She is Chair-Elect of the Scheller G.T. College of Business Advisory Board. She serves on the Technology Advisory Committee to the Georgia Tech Foundation, and on the G.T. Athletics Alexander Tharpe Fund Board of Directors. Based on her expertise, perspective, and standing within the education and advancement communities, she serves on the CASE Industry Advisory Council (IAC), a key volunteer leadership body that offers strategic guidance on advancing service to CASE Educational Partners. She served 3 year terms on the Cadence Bank Atlanta Advisory Board, and the Metro Atlanta Chamber Board. She chairs the iFOLIO Investor Advisory Board since 2017.
Jean Marie Richardson was honored with Woman of the Year and Most Innovative Woman of the Year Gold Stevie® Award for Women In Business in 2024 where women from Google, SAP, IBM, Meta, and 36 countries were recognized at the event in New York. She is a six-time global Stevie® Award winner for Women In Business. In 2023 she was awarded Best Female Entrepreneur for Business Products and Business Services - 11 to 2,500 employees. Jean Marie was honored as a Georgia Tech Woman of Impact in 2025 in the permanent installation of the Pathways of Progress on campus. Her leadership has earned iFOLIO, a WBENC-certified woman-owned company, more than 20 awards for innovation. She was named Marketing Innovator of the Year Finalist by the Technology Association of Georgia in 2019.
Jean Marie speaks nationally on digital transformation, AI, and the innovator's mindset at major conferences, universities, and across national media broadcast networks. She resides in Atlanta with her husband, Harry Lee Richardson IV, and their dogs, Harper Lee and Beaux.
