Bradley Kent Garlinghouse (born February 6, 1971) is the Chief Executive Officer at Ripple the leading provider of cryptocurrency-enabled solutions for businesses. Prior to Ripple, Brad served as the CEO of file collaboration service Hightail. He was President of Consumer Applications at AOL from 2009 to 2012 and held various positions at Yahoo! from 2003 to 2009, including Senior Vice President.^[7][8]

Brad formerly served as CEO of Dialpad Communications, held management positions at SBC Communications and Home Network, and was an advisor to Silverlake Partners. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Animoto and OutMatch and has held board positions at Ancestry.com and Tonic Health.^[9][10]

Education

Brad Garlinghouse was born and raised in Kansas. He graduated with a BA in Economics from the University of Kansas and an MBA from Harvard Business School.^[11]

Career

Brad Garlinghouse started as a Business Developer at Home Network from 1997 to 1999. Afterward, he was a general partner at Ventures.

In 2000, he served as the CEO of Dialpad.

In February 2003, he worked at Yahoo as an SVP Communications. In 2009, he worked at Silver Lake as a Senior Adviser.

In September 2009, he served as the president of AOL. From 2012 to 2014, Brad served as the CEO for Hightail (formerly YouSendIt).

In April 2015, Garlinghouse joined Ripple as the President and COO of the company. He rose to the position of a CEO in 2017. ^[8]

Ripple

Brad Garlinghouse is the CEO at Ripple. He joined Ripple as COO in April 2015, reporting to the then-CEO and co-founder Chris Larsen. He was promoted to CEO in December 2016.He was formerly the CEO and Chairman of Hightail (formerly YouSendIt), the file-sharing site. Before Hightail, he was President of Consumer Applications at AOL for two years, after his role as Senior Vice President at Yahoo! running its Communications business which included the Homepage, Flickr, Yahoo! Mail, and Yahoo! Messenger. While at Yahoo! he penned the famous Peanut Butter Manifesto calling for a shake-up at the then-fledgling Internet company. Garlinghouse also had stints at Silver Lake Partners, @Ventures, @Home Network, and SBC Communications, and was CEO of Dialpad Communications. He is an active angel investor in over 40 companies including hardware company Pure Storage, AI startup Diffbot, and Indigo Agriculture. He is a board member at Animoto, and OutMatch. He previously held board positions at Ancestry.com, and Tonic Health.

SEC Drops Case against Ripple Executives

On October 19, 2023, The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission dismissed all of its aiding and abetting claims against Ripple Labs executives Brad Garlinghouse and Chris Larsen in its lawsuit alleging the blockchain company violated U.S. securities law, according to a court filing in New York on Thursday. The SEC voted to dismiss charges with prejudice, meaning it cannot be filed again. ^{[16] [18]}

After all claims were dropped Brad Garlinghouse was quoted in a Ripple press release:

"For nearly three years, Chris and I have been the subject of baseless allegations from a rogue regulator with a political agenda. Instead of looking for the criminals stealing customer funds on offshore exchanges that were courting political favor, the SEC went after the good guys - along with our entire company of innovators and entrepreneurs - who are building a regulated business based in the U.S. We look forward to the day this chapter is closed once and for all, now that the SEC has dropped the curtain on their absurd theatrics against Chris and me."

The case originally began on December 23, 2020, when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a complaint alleging that Garlinghouse, Ripple Labs, and Ripple Chairman Chris Larsen had committed multiple breaches of securities laws. ^[14][15]