Brad Garlinghouse

Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of fintech firm Ripple, which develops XRP financial products, previously led file-sharing site Hightail and served as President of Consumer Apps at AOL and SVP of Yahoo!’s Communications division.

He authored the influential Peanut Butter Manifesto while at Yahoo! and has held various roles at Silver Lake Partners, @Ventures, @Home Network, SBC Communications, and Dialpad Communications.

Garlinghouse is an active angel investor in over 40 firms and serves on the boards of Animoto and OutMatch, having previously held positions at Ancestry.com and Tonic Health. He holds a BA in economics from the University of Kansas and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

• Ripple CEO