Bradley Kent Garlinghouse (born February 6, 1971) is an American business executive and the CEO of Ripple Labs, a financial technology company specializing in blockchain and cryptocurrency solutions.
Previously, he served as CEO and chairman of Hightail (formerly YouSendIt) and earlier in his career, he held executive roles at AOL and Yahoo!
[6] After Yahoo!, he served as a Senior Advisor at Silver Lake Partners,[5] and then went on to be President of Consumer Applications at AOL from 2009 to 2011.
[9] In 2020 Garlinghouse admitted that Ripple Labs would be losing money if it did not have the revenue generated from the sales of the XRP cryptocurrency.
[12] The whitewashing of unflattering details from Garlinghouse's Wikipedia page was a subject of discussion by Financial Times in August 2020.