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Jean Marie Richardson is the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of iFOLIO.
In this role, she is responsible for the company’s technology strategy and growth. Since 2016, Jean Marie has led iFOLIO to 10X growth, helping clients transform digital marketing and sales enablement.
Today under her leadership, the company powers millions of live sites, emails, and text messages for clients across industries and more than 330 SaaS capabilities. iFOLIO has helped customers generate 300% growth through personalized marketing.
Richardson has been awarded 3 US patents for customer engagement analytics.
US 11,630,652 B2 · Issued Apr 18, 2023
US 11,321,060 B2 - Issued May 24, 2022
US 10,996,933 B2 · Issued Mar 5, 2021
Jean Marie and her team focused on the development of innovative cloud services for marketing, sales enablement, and data & analytics functions. Using an agile approach and the latest in engineering practices, the team enhanced the Marketing Cloud experience for customers and built out transformational capabilities through a central cloud of common services and micro services. Richardson has led the build of transformational capabilities that are powering the iFOLIO strategy including a high performance, all-in-one marketing cloud that helps teams deliver sales content, web content, marketing content, reports, and personalized customer experiences via email, text message, and PURLs. The collaborative CMS (content management system) capabilities enable systems of connected units with dedicated media libraries, creative tools, master templates, and digital content, all powered by industry leading analytics. A single integrated platform saves time and cost for teams that often spend hours per day in 5 or 6 different platforms.
Background
Prior to iFOLIO Jean Marie spent 12 years in the technology sector.
Jean Marie served in product management at Microsoft and at Oracle Corporation, where she managed a mobile innovation initiative and spearheaded the acquisition of a mobile platform company. She managed the acquisition, delivering 180 converted customers and $6 Million in new sales in 2007. Post-acquisition she managed the product development team and led go to market launch of new mobile CRM products with Citibank and Konica.
At MasterCard, Jean Marie was Vice President of Business-to-Business Commercial Acceptance, where she managed a Profit and Loss and grew a B2B Supplier Enablement program to $1.2 Billion GDV (Gross Dollar Volume) working with financial institutions such as Citibank and BBVA and enterprises in 2015.
Jean Marie founded iFOLIO in 2016 after seeing first hand the challenges supporting sales and marketing across multiple platforms, and the need for a flexible, friendly platform to speed up digital transformation.
Culture, Service and Leadership
Jean Marie Richardson is committed to fostering a team culture of creativity and innovation as she grows iFOLIO.
She gives back to the Atlanta community through team service projects along with paid time off, mentoring, and Monday Mentoring through the Atlanta Business Chronicle. She supports women in tech through scholarships. She has pioneered the iFOLIO NIL Brand Ambassador program which has grown to more than 16 female athletes in 4 NCAA sports.
The company is a WBENC certified woman owned company and a SOC 2 Type 2 certified company, with more than 20 awards for innovation.
Jean Marie Richardson serves in leadership roles across Atlanta and serves on 5 boards.
She serves on the Georgia Tech Advisory Board (GTAB) to the President including regional, national, and international members with diverse leadership roles in business, government, and academia. She serves on the Technology Advisory Committee to the Georgia Tech Foundation Board. She serves on the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business Advisory Board and the Georgia Tech Athletics Alexander Tharpe Fund Board of Directors. She served on the Cadence Bank Atlanta Advisory Board from 2021-2024 and on the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Board of Advisors from 2017 - 2020. She chairs the iFOLIO Investor Advisory Board.
Awards & Speaker
Richardson 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® Award 2024 for her leadership in business products, business services, and technology. For her contributions to marketing innovation, Richardson was awarded a Marketing Innovator of the Year Award from the Technology Association of Georgia in 2019. For her contributions to business growth, she was recognized by the National Diversity Council as a Woman of Power in 2015. Jean Marie is recognized as a Georgia Tech Woman of Impact in a permanent tribute on campus in 2025.
Speaker:
Jean Marie speaks on topics about digital transformation, 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 the Georgia Institute of Technology, at Georgia State University, and on podcasts. (see speaker iFOLIO)
She resides in Atlanta with her husband Harry Lee Richardson and her dogs Harper Lee and Beaux.
