Christina Richards
Chief Operating Officer
Christina Richards is a marketing strategist, operations leader, and entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience driving growth in the technology industry. As Chief Operations Officer at Jove, Christina owns Go-To-Market strategy across the full product lifecycle — from early product development and positioning, through marketing and sales, and all the way to post-sale customer success.
Bringing Engineering Discipline to Go-To-Market
Before Jove, Christina served as Chief Marketing Officer at Virtana and held marketing and business development leadership roles at Silicon Valley startups including Aeris and AOptix, as well as at global firm Nortel Networks. Across those roles, she built and scaled the systems — brand, product marketing, demand generation, and revenue operations — that turn promising technology into category-defining businesses. Her dual background in electrical engineering and B2B marketing gives her a rare ability to connect product reality with market opportunity, and to make the hand-offs between engineering, marketing, and sales work.
Christina is a sought-after keynote speaker at industry events around the world and author of Rise of the AI-Powered CMO, in which she shares strategies for marketing leaders navigating the age of artificial intelligence.
Education
SMU, Cox School of Business, MBA in International Business
Virginia Tech, Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
