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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 100 elite organizations, enabling clients to generate up to 300% growth through personalized storytelling and marketing.
The platform’s diverse portfolio includes:
Beyond top-line expansion, Jean Marie is a disciplined operator. She has guided iFOLIO's rapid platform growth while maintaining a completely debt-free balance sheet.
Jean Marie founded iFOLIO after identifying a critical enterprise pain point: the massive loss of revenue and efficiency when sales, marketing, and analytics live across disconnected platforms. To solve this, she built a high-performance, unified solution for digital marketing, communications, and sales enablement.
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.
Enterprise Background
Before founding iFOLIO, Jean Marie built an exceptional enterprise career in product, customer acquisition, and P&L operations.
Board Service & Leadership
Deeply committed to leadership, education, and the tech ecosystem, Jean Marie serves on the Georgia Tech Advisory Board to the President. She is Chair-Elect of the Scheller College of Business Advisory Board, the Technology Advisory Committee to the Georgia Tech Foundation Board, and on the Athletics Alexander Tharpe Fund Board of Directors. She has served on Cadence Bank’s Atlanta Advisory Board, and the Metro Atlanta Chamber Board. She has also chaired the iFOLIO Investor Advisory Board since 2017.
Jean Marie was permanently honored on campus as a Georgia Tech Woman of Impact in 2025. Her leadership has earned iFOLIO, a WBENC-certified woman-owned company, more than 20 awards for innovation. Personally, she is a six-time global Stevie Award recipient for Women in Business, including Woman of the Year and Most Innovative Woman of the Year (Gold Stevie), and was named Marketing Innovator of the Year by the Technology Association of Georgia. A Presidents Scholar at Georgia Institute of Technology, Jean Marie graduated with honors in 2002.
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.
