Ryann Richardson is a senior marketing and operations executive with 13 years of experience leading cross-functional, often remote, teams in building culturally relevant technology brands spanning from venture-backed, early-stage startups to billion-dollar “unicorns” to the Fortune 500. As a marketer, she specializes in consumer tech marketplaces, enterprise SaaS platforms, and professional network communities with deep expertise in market and product launches, growth hacking, strategic partnerships, brand strategy, and operations systems building. Also a global keynote speaker, host, and published writer, Richardson is an established diversity & inclusion and corporate social impact leader, with a track record of building progressive equity and inclusion solutions and substantive public-private community partnerships. As the 50th Miss Black America, she spent 2 years on a national keynote speaking tour, focusing on the intersection of technology, diverse leadership, and social justice. She’s been featured by the Washington Post, Vanity Fair, the Financial Times, BET, and W Magazine and ESSENCE magazine called her TED Talk, “The best 16 minutes you’ll have this year.”