Monica Long is President at Ripple. She leads the company’s two business units - Ripple Payments, Ripple’s flagship product, and RippleX, the team supporting an open-source community of blockchain developers. Most recently, Monica served as General Manager, and before that as SVP of Marketing and Design, having joined Ripple in 2013 as the company's first marketing/communications hire. She also supports the Women at Ripple Employee Resource Group as its Executive Sponsor. Throughout her career, she’s helped technology companies drive fundamental change in the financial services industry and was recognized among the Bay Area's Most Influential Women in Business in 2020. Before joining Ripple, Monica worked in corporate communications at Intuit. Prior to that, she managed public relations for startup clients in various B2B and B2C sectors, with several in fintech, including Prosper. Monica graduated with a BA from UC Berkeley.