Kiersten Hollars is the SVP of People, Places & Communications at Ripple. Prior to joining Ripple, Kiersten was a partner at The Hatch Agency, where she spent three years working with Ripple to help build and grow the communications program. She also led agency teams for companies like Ancestry, Dropbox and Stitch Fix. In 2012, Kiersten served as a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, counseling the firm’s portfolio companies on their marketing programs. Before this, Kiersten led award-winning media campaigns, events, and employee and crisis communications for Silicon Valley tech companies like Hightail, AOL, Yahoo!, Oracle and Salesforce.