Former Yahoo! Executive and Hightail CEO Joins Ripple as COO
Brad Garlinghouse, the former CEO of Hightail and a long-time executive of Yahoo! has been appointed as Ripple's first Chief Operating Officer, as the company passes the 100-employee mark. "Brad's experience will be invaluable as we advance our focus from building a strong pipeline to execution and exceptional growth," said Ripple Labs CEO and co-founder....
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Ripple Labs has appointed former Yahoo and AOL executive Brad Garlinghouse as its new COO. Garlinghouse, who sits on the board of Ancestry.com, became the CEO of file-sharing firm Hightail in 2012. He departed last fall following a dispute over a potential sale of the company, as reported at the time by Re/code. In a press statement about his new role, Garlinghouse said:
Ripple Labs has been adding more and more high-level officials to its strategic board, and its latest move was to appoint former Yahoo and AOL executive Brad Garlinghouse as its Chief Operating Officer. Garlinghouse became popular in 2006 when an internal Yahoo memo he penned was leaked was published. He also sits on the board of Ancestry.com and became the CEO of Hightail, a file-sharing firm. "There is already incredible momentum for Ripple as a new infrastructure for global payments, and the opportunity to define the actual framework for the Internet of Value is an order of magnitude....
Blockchain-based Ripple has been rigorously moving its technology forward. Now, the U.S.-based gross settlement system has announced CEO Chris Larsen is stepping down. Larsen will be replaced by former AOL and Yahoo executive on January 1, 2017. Ripple Will Have a New CEO Next Year. San Francisco-based Ripple has appointed Brad Garlinghouse to be the....
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Ripple chief executive officer, Brad Garlinghouse, stated in July that the crypto company will relocate if it loses its legal dispute with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Well, it looks like Garlinghouse will just have to stay put and not go anywhere. Ripple has just won a major victory against the SEC in court. […]