Brad Garlinghouse is one of the most popular and richest Chief Operating Officer who was born on February 6, 1971 in Topeka, Kansas, United States. In 2018, Garlinghouse said that in 2018 “major banks” would be making use of Ripple tools to make usage of XRP cryptocurrency. The company also said that by the close of 2019 “dozens” of banks would use XRP. In November of 2019, Ripple announced “…over twenty customers had already signed up to use the service with some already in use”
In April 2020, he and Ripple jointly filed a lawsuit against YouTube alleging that the social media platform did not act to remove impersonation scam videos using his and Ripple’s likenesses.
Garlinghouse was hired by Ripple as the COO on April 2015. He was working under then the CEO as well as co-founder Chris Larsen. He was promoted to CEO in December of 2016.
Following Yahoo!, he served as a Senior Advisor for Silver Lake Partners, and later became the president of Consumer Applications at AOL from 2009 to the year 2011. He was a part of Hightail (formerly YouSendIt) as CEO from September 2014 until the end of 2014.
In December 2019, Garlinghouse announced that Ripple had raised a $200M series C funding round from Tetragon, SBI Ventures and Route 66 Ventures. In January 2020, he made comments alluding to a Ripple IPO in the future.
