
SVP of Global Customer Success
Ripple
Aaron Sears is the SVP of Global Customer Success at Ripple where he oversees partnerships and is responsible for the growth and success of Ripple’s enterprise technology, Ripple Payments, across the region. He has more than 25 years experience closing and managing technically complex, global partnerships across a variety of industries. Prior to Ripple, Aaron worked as the Vice President of Global Sales at Sight Machine, a data platform for manufacturing that unlocks plant data to help manufacturers improve profitability, productivity, and sustainability. He worked closely with a global sales team across international markets, namely India.
As the Vice President, International at AOL, Aaron oversaw Asia-Pacific operations and led the company’s expansion into new markets. At Yahoo, he led the international go-to-market team behind Yahoo’s Communications & Communities business unit (comprised of Mail, Messenger, Flickr and Groups). Earlier at Yahoo he worked in Business Development forging strategic, co-branded, broadband partnerships with British Telecom (United Kingdom), Rogers Communications (Canada), Verizon and BellSouth (now part of AT&T). Prior to this, Aaron was the business manager for Yahoo Everywhere, Yahoo’s initial mobile strategy, where he led the business development team behind its first strategic agreements with a variety of mobile operators and device manufacturers. Partnerships executed and managed by Aaron have generated billions of dollars in revenue.