brad garlinghouse

Brad Garlinghouse is the CEO of the financial technology company Ripple Labs, he is an extremely popular name across the global crypto landscape. He has previously served as the CEO of Hightail, a file-sharing service, and is also an active angel investor. He joined Ripple as COO in April 2015, answering to the CEO and prime supporter, Chris Larsen. He was elevated to CEO in December 2016. Initially, he worked at AOL and Yahoo! From 2003 to 2008, he filled in as Senior Vice President at Yahoo!, where he ran its Homepage, Flickr, Yahoo! Mail, and Yahoo! Courier divisions. While at Yahoo!, he wrote an inner update known as the "Peanut Butter Manifesto," requiring the organization to zero in on its core business instead of extending itself excessively far, much like peanut butter.

Details:

• Organization: Ripple
• Location: United States
• Education: MBA from Harvard Business School and BA from The University of Kansas
• Skills: Venture capital and Startups

Experience:

• CEO at Ripplefrom from Jan 2017 - Present ·
• President and COO at Ripple logo from Apr 2015 - Dec 2016 
• Board Member at Animoto from 2012 - Dec 2017
• Tonic Health, an R1 company logo
• Board Member at Tonic Health from 2011-2016
• Board Member at Ancestry from 2013 - 2016
• CEO at Hightail from May 2012 - Sep 2014