Marisa Ricciardi is the Founding Partner and CEO of the Ricciardi Group, the NY-based strategic marketing agency with clients including Visa, iCapital, Splitit and Adobe, which received Inc’s Fastest Growing Companies award three years running. Ricciardi started her career as a trader on the Unit Investment Trading Desk at Morgan Stanley, became a Vice President at Goldman Sachs, and then the CMO of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE Euronext). Riccardi is on the Fast Company Executive Board, part of the Forbes Next 1000, a visiting lecturer at NYU, a founding member of the private peer-to-peer network Extraordinary Women on Boards (EWOB) – serving on the Boards of Siena College Stack Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and JJellyfish – and is very active in the angel investing community.