Connolly-LaBelle serves as president and chief executive officer of RippleNami, Inc., a global technology company that is redefining blockchain and mapping. RippleNami is dedicated to connecting to the unconnected through its proprietary, revolutionary visualization platform that consolidates big data, easily providing organizations and users with information that matters. In just under six months, RippleNami positively impacted 20+ million users (including farmers, women, children, refugees and veterans) in Africa and the United Kingdom

Connolly-LaBelle brings more than 30 years of leadership experience to her role, which she garnered from various positions held in the finance and mergers and acquisitions areas, as well as in key C-level roles she served in at both private and publicly traded corporations. In her leadership role with RippleNami, she is responsible for development and execution of the Company’s long-term strategy with an emphasis on creating shareholder value.

Connolly-LaBelle is experienced in leading publicly traded as well as privately held companies and start­ups. Her public company experience spans key roles at six publicly traded corporations. Over the course of her career, she led 18 accretive acquisitions, adding over $2 billion to revenue. Connolly-LaBelle also possesses significant IPO experience.

Previously, Connolly-LaBelle served as president and chief executive officer of PathCentral, Inc., which was acquired by XIFIN; president and chief executive officer of A-Life Medical Inc., which was acquired by UnitedHealth Group; vice president of business development and mergers and acquisitions at InSight Health Corp.; and director of internal audit at LabCorp.

In 2016, Connolly-LaBelle was appointed as Ominto’s Board of Directors and named Chairman of the Audit Committee. Ominto, Inc. (NASDAQ: OMNT) is a leader in global online Cash Back shopping. Its personalized shopping platform is used to deliver coupons, deals and Cash Back to shoppers each time they make online purchases on the Company’s Partner Program websites, DubLi.com and Ominto.com.

RippleNami is an internationally recognized award winning company. Since 2015, RippleNami received over thirty awards from top organization such as Thomson Reuters for Africa Startup Challenge, International Business Awards for Data Visualization and Fast Company for Best Developing World Technology. RippleNami was selected to the Prosper Women Entrepreneurs Accelerator program, focused on increasing women entrepreneurs' access to growth capital and building the number of women investing in early-stage capital markets and Capital Innovators Accelerator program, one of the top 10 seed startup accelerator programs in the U.S.

In 2017, the Company and Connolly-LaBelle was named CEO World Award winner in three categories of the 5th Annual 2017 CEO World Awards for Female CEO of the year; Corporate Social Responsibility Program; and Start Up of the Year. RippleNami was a two-time gold winner in the 6th Annual Best of Biz® Awards for Corporate Social Responsibility and in the Silicon Valley US Awards for Female Executive of the Year. In addition, the Company and Connolly-LaBelle was named STEVIE® Award winner in three categories of the 15th Annual American Business Awards: Best Data Visualization Technology, Executive of the Year and Women of the Year and in two categories of the 14th Annual American Business Awards: Startup of the Year and Tech Startup of the Year. Also in 2016, RippleNami was named STEVIE® Award winner in four categories of the 14th Annual International Business Awards: Best Data Visualization Technology; Startup of the Year; Corporate Social Responsibility Program of the Year; and Women of the Year and winner in three categories of the 13th Annual International Business Awards: Business Product Startup of the Year; Business Services Startup of the Year; and, Corporate Social Responsibility Program of the Year – in the Middle East and Africa.

Furthermore, the Company was named a gold winner in the startup of the year category for information technology software of the 8th Annual Golden Bridge Awards® and two time winner in Best Product of the Year and Management Team of the year of the 9th Annual Golden Bridge Awards®.


In addition, the Company and Connolly-LaBelle earned three Stevie® Awards in the 2016 Stevie ®Awards for Women in Business competition for Business Product Startup of the Yea; Female Executive of the Year; and Business Services Company of the Year. Connolly-LaBelle also was selected for the Women Who Mean Business Awards by the San Diego Business Journal, which recognizes dynamic women business leaders and role models who have contributed significantly to San Diego’s business landscape (in 2010 and 2015, Connolly-LaBelle was named among San Diego Business Journal’s Women Who Mean Business as well).