What Happened?
San Francisco, CA-based Ripple-Labs Appointed Brad Garlinghouse as Chief Operating Officer
About the Company
Ripple Labs provides services and solutions for Ripple, global financial settlement infrastructure technology. Ripple powers the free and instant exchange of anything of value, and enables the creation of an Internet of Value (IoV). Ripple Labs’ team of more than 100 is comprised of deeply experienced cryptographers, security experts, distributed network developers, Silicon Valley and Wall Street veterans. They contribute code to the open-source software, as well as develop tools for and recruit financial institutions and payment networks to use Ripple. The team shepherds a movement to evolve finance so that payment systems are open, secure, constructive and globally inclusive.
About the Person
Brad leads the operational components of Ripple Labs. Most recently he was the CEO of Hightail. Prior to that he helped navigate Yahoo! through a crucial growth period as an Exec, unintentionally making a name for himself after penning an email calling for focus, accountability, and decisiveness to push the company back to a market leading position.
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