Shanna Leonard

Shanna Leonard is the VP of Marketing at Secfi. Shanna has over 20 years of experience in marketing, sales strategy, and communications. Shanna began their career at Dow Jones as a Segment Marketing Manager and Trade Show & Event Coordinator. Shanna then moved to Charles Schwab as Senior Manager, Sales Strategy and Communications. In 2011, they joined iShares as Digital Content Marketing Manager.

In 2016, Shanna joined Ripple as the fourth marketing hire and built a team responsible for brand awareness, demand generation, global events, video, digital advertising, content marketing, customer/employee advocacy and community engagement. Under their leadership, Ripple was named Most Innovative FinTech Companies in 2019 and Most Sought-After Startups in 2018.

Shanna is recognized for their ability to drive sales and produce successful awareness campaigns. Shanna has conceived and launched an award-winning event series featuring President Bill Clinton, Dr. Ben Bernanke, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Steve Miller Band, Snoop Dogg, and the Counting Crows.

Shanna Leonard has an MBA from Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University in HR and Marketing. Shanna also has a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) from The College of New Jersey in Marketing and Spanish. Shanna is a Certified Holistic Health Coach from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and is certified by the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in Integrative Nutrition Health Coach (INHC).

Some of their coworkers include Laurens Taylor-Clarke - Head of Tech Recruitment, Neha Bhatia Ramdas - VP, Sales & Client Success, and Lucinda Pouw - Director of People. A direct report to Shanna Leonard is and Stephanie Nehmens - Director of Product Marketing. Shanna Leonard reports to Frederik Mijnhardt, CEO.